Due to exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act, the documents were closed to public access until January this year, just as…
Carrawburgh is one of 16 forts along the 118km Hadrian’s Wall. The frontier, built around AD 122, was responsible for defending the…
Now, new scientific analysis has confirmed that a large gold bar found in Mexico City was part of the plunder Spanish conquistadors…
Doris Miller earned the Navy Cross for his actions during the Japanese attack on the US base at Pearl Harbor on 7…
Guns are an everyday feature of most military museums, but one weapon in particular has attracted a lot of attention. A WWI…
The victims of World War II are remembered in regular commemorations, but many of the fatalities have never been recovered. Now academics…
It was one of the most famous armoured cruisers of the First World War, but it had remained lost for a century.…
The location of the battle that supposedly ‘brought England into existence’ was always going to be hotly disputed. But archaeologists now claim…
Faces of a Queen: the Armada Portraits of Elizabeth, a free exhibition at the Queen’s House in Greenwich, opens on 13 February…
All great military tacticians plan their campaigns carefully, but only very rarely do those plans survive. Now a sketch showing Admiral Lord…