The key battle that established the country as a major power.…
On this episode of The PastCast, historian and teacher Graham Goodlad charts the military careers of the king and his heir, a…
The story of Alexander the Great, the dashing young prince who conquered vast swathes of the world before his mysterious death at…
Neither Admirals Rodney or Howe were paragons of virtue. But they were both personally brave, adept tacticians, and, despite their flaws, effective…
Edward Henry Hynman Allenby was born in 1861 in Brackenhurst, Nottinghamshire in comfortable circumstances – a Victorian squire perhaps destined to help…
The corroded helmet would have been an essential component of protection for any Viking warrior. Several iron bands and plates, riveted together,…
The U-boat went down with all hands and has rested on the seabed, some 37km (23 miles) off the coast of Yorkshire,…
Just as there was no single Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War, there was no single Royalist Army either. But while…
Few today can recall much about the Jacobites, other than Bonnie Prince Charlie, ‘the Young Chevalier’, and his noble defeat at Culloden…
The location of the battle that supposedly ‘brought England into existence’ was always going to be hotly disputed. But archaeologists now claim…