A cut-away diagram of this WWI British destroyer, the specialised hunter-killer of German U-boats…
The Canada General Service Medal was not awarded until 1899, though it related to campaigns fought in Canada between 1866 and 1871,…
The Predator system was designed in response to a Department of Defence requirement to provide persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information combined…
Tattooing in Western culture owes its popularity to the sailors of the 1700s, who were inspired by the tattooed indigenous people they…
Military History Monthly’s roving museum explorer Keith Robinson visits a storehouse of naval ‘big bangs’. A lesser known museum on the Gosport side of…
According to military historian Saul David: ‘Given that the recent tempo of military operations for British and US forces is higher than it…
In our monthly study of the conflicts that lie behind treasured campaign medals, this month, we examine the conflicts behind the British South Africa Company…
In the early 1960s, Michael Caine was regularly playing small character parts in television dramas and British movies. With his cockney accent…
The reasons Britain and the United States went to war in 1812 are diverse. Indeed, different factions within each country had different…
Most people are familiar with the tumultuous events of England in 1066, but how much do you know about ‘the other Norman…
Tickets to English Heritage's re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings this weekend are sold out, but here are 10 alternative ways to…
Who? The one next to Lenin? Well, he was. Until Joseph Stalin had him erased from the photograph (below). But, despite Stalin’s…
