Sixty years on from Indonesia’s anti-Communist purge, a British propaganda campaign demonstrates how fabricated voices, forged documents and psychological warfare helped grease the wheels of regime change against Sukarno.
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Churchill’s Most Hateful Decision, by Edward Abel Smith
An exploration of the East India Company’s Leadenhall Street headquarters unveils just how many of London’s most noteworthy buildings which told the capital’s story have disappeared without trace.
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Sir Gruffydd Donne: Knight of Kidwelly
The novelist traces one man's journey from the shadow of his grandfather’s support for Owain Glyndwr to a career fighting for Henry V and Henry VI, and explores a Welsh family whose fortunes hinged on some of the defining conflicts of medieval Britain.
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Eadric Streona: Archvillain of English History
One of Anglo-Saxon England’s most notorious figures, his murderous ambition and repeated betrayals triggered Danish conquest and the upheavals that resulted in 1066.
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The Bases Britain Almost Abandoned in Cyprus
After the 1974 Turkish intervention, Britain came close to relinquishing sovereign territory on the island before American pressure compelled Harold Wilson's government to reverse course.
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Sir Gruffydd Donne: Knight of Kidwelly
The novelist traces one man's journey from the shadow of his grandfather’s support for Owain Glyndwr to a career fighting for Henry V and Henry VI, and explores a Welsh family whose fortunes hinged on some of the defining conflicts of medieval Britain.
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Caesar’s Gaulish King: The Double Lives of Commius the Atrebatan
The stirring career of a one-time trusted ally, sometimes determined enemy, of Caesar reveals the complexities of loyalty and political manoeuvring in operation behind Rome’s invasions of Britain and Gaul.
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Tyrants and Demagogues
Drawing on the history of Syracuse, the author outlines the inspirations behind his new novel and examines just how power, identity and war shaped Sicilian history.
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Lumberjills: The Women in Britain’s Forests Who Helped Win the War
The author shares the remarkable story of Britain's forgotten Women’s Timber Corps – and the decade-long journey that inspired her four books including her latest novel, The Lumberjills Under Suspicion.
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Chalke Daily: Operation Torch to Dancing Queen
Justin Doherty Zeb Baker-Smith
Cooler, breezier, busier – the biggest day so far
Chalke Daily: Heat and Hard Truths
Attendees are enduring record-breaking heat with characteristic resilience, but conditions still fall short of the grizzly existence of a U-Boat crew.
Chalke Daily: Hobnobbing and the Hottest of Takes
Infernal temperatures as the programme kicks off properly
Chalke Daily: Shrugging Off the States for the Stage
The Editor-at-large gives his report of talks and Shakespearean tragedy from the second day.
Chalke Daily: Storm Clouds and Scaramucci
We’re back in Wiltshire on the first day of the UK’s largest festival devoted to history!
The Big Debrief – Review
At its inaugural conference, Britain at War brought together leading historians and broadcasters for a day of lively discussion.
Can Aethelred the Unready Be Rehabilitated?
The author asks whether he was England’s most incompetent king, or whether history unfairly blames him for Viking successes and overlooks his achievements?
The “Ghost” Match: An Extract
Stefano Bizzotto
In a surreal, chilling moment, the Chilean national football team played alone in Santiago’s Estadio Nacional after the Soviet Union refused to compete in a stadium that the Pinochet regime had turned into a site of imprisonment, torture and death.
Stockton and Darlington’s Bicentenary
David Gwyn
Though the railway had a pivotal role in the development of modern rail transport, the historian challenges persistent myths that it was the world’s first.
The Road Back to Boston
Thor Hogan
On April 19 1775, colonial troops battled redcoats at Concord's North Bridge, which resulted in nearly three-hundred British casualties and paved the way for American independence.
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