From the Malayan campaign to the tense final days of Japanese rule in Singapore, the career of Lt Col “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, preserved in family papers, brings to light wartime stories of the Indian Army and the final years of the Raj.
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30 Commando and The Wizard War
During the race for wartime technology, Ian Fleming’s 30 Commando led Britain’s hunt for enemy intelligence as the Allied invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy gathered pace.
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Ibsen’s Ghosts at the Questors Theatre – A Review
A dark and emotionally charged production of Ghosts at the Questors Theatre.
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The Two Hundred Years War and the Shaping of Our World
What we label the Hundred Years War is an example of modern periodisation, clouding the forces at play in the Anglo-French conflicts of the Medieval period. Reframing the conflict over two centuries uncover how such European rivalries prompted the era of global exploration that followed.
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What is the Blood Price?
The novelist's latest is a departure from the Norman invasion, but what's the story behind it?
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Alexander the Great in the Dock
Classics for All’s latest 'moot trial' brought history’s greatest commander to the Supreme Court.
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Hadrian’s Wall: Strategic Masterpiece or Monumental Folly?
Was Hadrian's Wall built to keep out barbarians, or rather to demonstrate the power of Rome?
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Unionism & The Treaty
Ulster leader James Craig thought he had beaten Lloyd George during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
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Better to Have Gone: Auroville
Akash Kapur
In this excerpt from his new book, Better to Have Gone, Akash Kapur describes the beginning of an incredible journey.
Winceby: The Finest Hour of the Rising Cromwell
Ronald Hutton
This lesser known battle was fine preparation for Cromwell ahead of his victories at Marston Moor and Naseby
Five Books By My Bed
The author of Berlin: The Story of a City and Partition writes about his favourite books to read this Summer.
Origins of a Legend: Robin Hood and the Disinherited
Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Prince of Thieves, Sean Connery, Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks. There have been so many interpretations of the legendary figure, but where does the story really come from? Novelist and historian David Pilling reveals all.
History Repeating Itself? The Spanish Flu of 1918.
Catharine Arnold
In 1918 humanity face another influenza pandemic, this one more lethal, which hit populations emerging from the horrors of World War One.
Five Favourites: Books on Ancient Rome
The historical novelist's favourite picks from Republic to Empire and Cicero to Marcus Aurelius.
The Viking Great Army: New Discoveries
Dawn M. Hadley & Julian D. Richards
It has been the intervention of metal detectorists that has advanced our knowledge of the Viking Great Army that landed in East Anglia in 865AD
The Spanish Civil War: Totalitarian Intervention
Anthony J. Candil
The Spanish Civil War was of great interest to the totalitarian powers of the 1930s in testing their military theories, but did they learn from them?
HMS Belfast: The Re-Opening
There is still life, and learning, in the old girl.
The Pathfinders: A Tragic Tale
Will Iredale
The 80-year heartbreak of the WAAF who overslept and missed the chance to say goodbye to her RAF Lancaster pilot boyfriend hours before he was killed over Nazi Germany.
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