The past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past
“The Navy had always regarded the island as the keystone of victory in the Mediterranean...it should be held at all costs.” Admiral A.B. Cunningham,...
The Search for Latitude Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Guiral lay unconscious on the mountainside. ‘I fell down’, he wrote later, ‘and remained a...
The Second World War was probably the greatest human catastrophe the world has ever seen. Historians have always struggled to find words that can...
58 years ago JFK gave one of his best speeches. Speaking to huge crowds in West Berlin, he called on the free world to stand by Berliners divided by...
Emily Midorikawa
Something of a celebrity in the Victorian period, Georgina Weldon took on the legal and medical establishment, and won.
946 Allied casualties in Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for D-Day. 200 Allied casualties on Utah Beach on D-Day.
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Sarah Hodder
The Woodvilles are much maligned, so says the author of a new book on the daughters of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.
Nicholas Jellicoe
Why the Battle of Jutland still fascinates today
Iain Ballantyne
The author of the sinking of the Bismarck looks at the brutal reality of the famous clash between steel giants at sea during the Second World War.
Sudhir Hazareesingh
The Wolfson Prize winner writes about the relationship between Toussaint Louverture and Napoleon Bonaparte is an intriguing one, although they never met.
Alan Jeffreys
Since 2019 the Imperial War Museum has published classic novels written by World War Two veterans. Here the IWM Senior Curator introduces the series and tells us why it's so important.
Kate Winkler Dawson
In this edited extract, the author of American Sherlock tells us about Oscar Heinrich, the forensic criminologist
