Taken from the MHM34 feature, here are 9 deposed monarchs, some of whom were quite gruesomely dethroned. Harold II (1066) The…
Dial ‘M’ for Muddle… Two of the three M-class submarines that the Royal Navy launched between 1916 and 1919 were lost with…
John Winterburn finds a censored version of Jordan’s military history at the country’s national army museum. …
Dr Phil Stone outlines the Richard III Society’s views regarding the king’s burial. When the ‘Looking for Richard Project’ was devised…
With hundreds of military museums in the UK alone, how do you know which one will best suit your interests? Here, MHM has picked…
Taken from the first of our Frontline series analysing first-hand accounts of war, this box looks at what it took to be…
Taken from our feature on General Erich Ludendorff and his final desperate bid for victory on the Western Front in 1918, this…
It takes more to occupy a country than just military efficiency, argues journalist, author, and former correspondent for The Independent, Justin Huggler. Ten…
Massed Musketry was central to 18th-century tactics. Infantry training – represented in manuals like this one used in our Malplaquet feature –…
Who were the men in the line at Malplaquet? Britain’s peacetime army was very small when the War of the Spanish Succession…