Taylor Downing delves into the weird world of Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War black comedy. After making his First World War epic Paths…
It is 1799. After a decade of political turmoil, more than 40,000 executions and a brief but bloody Reign of Terror, France…
Richard Bevan takes a look at a selection of war films, some of which are unlikely to win any awards for historical…
Cambridge philosopher Iain King begins a new series looking at how great thinkers were shaped by war. He begins with Socrates, the…
The British Limbless Ex-Service Men’s Association (BLESMA) has existed since after the First World War, starting out as a network of those…
With the ever-growing popularity of genealogy and family history, more and more societies and organisations are being established offering help and guidance. Here, MHM has…
In the second of his new occasional series, TV producer and historian Taylor Downing reviews a wartime Spitfire classic. On 16 August…
There are hundreds of military museums and heritage sites throughout Europe specialising in different eras, armies, and wars. With some opening new…
The January 2013 issue of Military History Monthly, the British military history magazine, is on sale today. In the latest issue we…
Larry Collins looks at the function of theatre entertainment during the First World War and its role as unofficial recruiter, propagandist, and…