As every Scotsman knows, in 1314, at midsummer, the might of the English army came to grief in the boggy ground below…
In 1302, the townspeople of Flanders rebelled against the French, laying siege to the castle at Courtrai. The French sent an army…
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The Battle of Isandlwana on the 22nd of January 1879 was one of the most devastating defeats suffered by Britain at the…
It was the first time since 390 BC that the city of Rome had fallen to a barbarian enemy. It shocked the…
The first aircraft to be deployed in the war swooped to strafe the Afghans fleeing across the frontier after their defeat. A…
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…
