The Lancastrians were a usurper dynasty. Their contested authority culminated in the Wars of the Roses, and later inspired Shakespeare’s history plays.…
In 1942 Sir Winston Churchill stirringly declared, ‘I have not become the King’s First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation…
Cambridge philosopher Iain King discovers a First World War artilleryman with a revolutionary treatise in his backpack. Born in 1889 into the…
With hundreds of military museums in the UK alone, how do you know which one will best suit your interests? Here, MHM has picked…
The RAF family is made up of all those who are serving in the RAF, all those who have previously served, and their wives, husbands, partners, and…
Even though nearly 70 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, the statistics on the destruction caused by…
Cambridge philosopher Iain King continues his series on the relationship between war and thought. Was the founder of modern philosophy a spy…
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…
