It is a question often asked: what was the worst day in Britain’s military history? Depending perhaps on their definition of ‘Britain’,…
Military History Matters has curated a list of 2025’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM Book Awards. Our selection includes some…
Military History Matters has curated a list of 2025’s best military history titles: the nominees for this year’s MHM book awards. Our selection includes some…
Charles the Great – known as Charlemagne – was one of the undoubted titans of the medieval world. Born in c.742, he…
Verdun – or the ‘Mill on the Meuse’, as it became known – holds a similar place in France’s national psyche to…
On 4 July 2026, tens of millions of Americans across the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country’s Declaration…
It was a moment whose significance was immediately apparent...…
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…
