We’re back in Wiltshire on the first day of the UK’s largest festival devoted to history!
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The Big Debrief – Review
At its inaugural conference, Britain at War brought together leading historians and broadcasters for a day of lively discussion.
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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?
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The “Ghost” Match: An Extract
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.
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A Rocket in the Marshes
In 1944, the Polish resistance managed to recover parts of Hitler’s secret V-2 rockets and passed vital intelligence to Britain, the operation becoming one of the most remarkable, yet overlooked, intelligence successes of the war.
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A Battle in Myth and Blood
Outnumbered, isolated and feared, the Assassins and the Templars became two of the medieval world’s most formidable organisations despite being on opposite sides of the crusades.
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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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Stockton and Darlington’s Bicentenary
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.
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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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