It was 150 years ago on 12 April 1861, that the guns opened fire at Fort Sumter, marking the start of America’s…
The potential of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 cannot be underestimated. Egypt has been the political centre of gravity of the Middle…
This Saturday, 5th March, a Spitfire spectacular has been organised in Southampton to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first ever flight…
The Sandhurst Foundation is a charitable organisation set up by The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2004. The Foundation’s core support comes…
This month, Keith Robinson finds a fitting memorial to the brave submariners of two world wars. Taking the Portsmouth Harbour waterbus is…
Former infantry officer and military historian Mark Corby begs to differ with the result of the poll published in last month’s Military…
Isandlwana was perhaps the greatest defeat inflicted on the British redcoats by native warriors in imperial history. To read the full article, see…
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…
