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...
Matthew Willis
The convoy to Malta in August 1942 was vital in sustaining its resistance. Over five days, Royal Navy and Merchant ships were torpedoed, bombed and strafed by Axis forces.
Nicholas Crane
Measuring the earth was not only mathematically challenging, but a physical feat too.
We should look back at the lessons given at the end of the most traumatic event in human history.
President Kennedy's speech 58 years ago still resonates today.
Katy Moran
Camp followers of Napoleonic armies were more than just baggage carriers.
John Shovlin
The 'Second Hundred Years War' during the 18th century could have come to a premature end if corporate interests had won through.
Was this battle an English or Welsh victory? The casualties suggest the latter.
Lucy Jane Santos
Radium had an unlikely role in changing the fashion from pocket to wrist watches.
Emma Rothschild
Where does ancestry sit within history? They are closely related, so says the author of a new book on a French family covering 300 years.
