Designed by the Germans, copied by the British and thrown out of aeroplanes over occupied Europe, the Royal Enfield Flying Flea was…
The December 2012 issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is on sale today. In the latest issue we…
Since the advent of the modern press, newspapers and journals have dispatched their reporters to the seat of war in pursuit of…
Following the popularity of our Summer Events Guide, we bring you all the best shows, lectures, and living history weekends coming up this Autumn. Birmingham…
Richard Jeynes follows the trail of Robert Napier's expedition to Ethiopia to free British hostages…
Following the discovery of remains believed to be those of Richard III, take a look at what really happened at Bosworth…
Between 1642 and 1645, London was the heart of a national revolution against absolutism. During the ‘December Days’ in late 1641, the political crisis…
Susie Kearley speaks to one of the former cartographers at Hughenden Manor, a WWII military base whose secrets have, until recently, remained…
James Wearn reports on a vast battlefield of both world wars, filled with the bodies of the unrecovered dead. In a dark,…
The enormous success of last year’s film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel War Horse caused a sudden public obsession with the…