The 1824 Vagrancy Act – which criminalises rough sleeping – has become the subject of public debate after Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK’s Labour Party,…
The siege of Ladysmith during the Anglo-Boer war is the stuff of legends. The Boers had surrounded General Sir George White and…
Patrick Boniface on the deaths in combat of regal warriors. The savagery of the Zulu Wars showed no respect for class or…
We know the story. Goaded into a hopeless war by an expanding colonial empire, thousands of warriors rise against their oppressors –…
War and violence are the last things one would associate with that 19th-century doyenne of English literature, Jane Austen. Ambles in the…
The epic defence of Chakdara is intriguing. It lasted a week (26 July-2 August 1897), involved 240 men defending an isolated post…
Patrick Boniface analyses the expansion and transformation of the US Navy during the American Civil War. ‘Give me six hours to chop…
Queen Victoria’s husband was not a military man. But the Crimea turned him into a zealous army reformer. As an armchair strategist,…