Two years of amateur warfare had changed nothing.The English Civil War remained in the balance. Then, in February 1645, Parliament created the New…
A history of the British Army in 25 Battles. We will be telling the story of the British Army - focusing on…
May 1940. Explosives expert Eddie Dawson and logistics specialist Major Sykes are sent to Eben Emael in Belgium, notoriously the most impregnable…
In March this year, we published an account of the struggle for the Hougoumont farm complex during the Battle of Waterloo. It…
The Festival of History is Europe’s biggest historical event, and Military Times has a set of family tickets (two adults, three children)…
Anglo-Irish relations can be likened to a long unhappy marriage in which, although the couple have finally divorced, they still share the…
With a new war raging in Libya, Second World War veteran Patrick Delaforce teases out the lessons of the 1940-1943 campaign in…
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…
