Mary Anne Clarke and the Duke of York Scandal (1809)
We look back at the story of the Duke of York Scandal of 1809 when Mary Anne Clarke and Colonel Wardle upended British politics.
Military History
A collection of 22 Posts
D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four – The Aftermath (Part 3 of 3)
In this special commemorative feature, nineteen historians tell the story of Operation Overlord, or D-Day, in forty-four images
D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four – The Invasion (Part 2 of 3)
In this special commemorative feature, nineteen historians tell the story of Operation Overlord, or D-Day, in forty-four images
D-Day: Nineteen Forty-Four – The Planning (Part 1 of 3)
In this special commemorative feature, nineteen historians tell the story of Operation Overlord, or D-Day, in forty-four images
Opening the Gates of Hell: Operation Barbarossa with Richard Hargreaves
Richard Hargreaves examines two of the most bloody and significant weeks in all military history
The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice
Jonathan Glancey revisits one of the final airborne operations of World War Two
The Royal Navy's Campaign to Suppress the Slave Trade with Stephen Taylor
Stephen Taylor's book, Predator of the Seas, follows the life of an extraordinary vessel
A Very Private Life – Nikolai Tolstoy Remembers Patrick O’Brian
We look back at the life of the 'greatest historical novelist of all time'
Lord of the Flies and the Second World War
Dr Nicola Presley traces the hope and despair of William Golding's novel back to the years of war
Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory with Patrick Bishop
On the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris in August 1944, we talk to Patrick Bishop about a complex episode in French history
In Pursuit of Margaret Paston
For twenty five years Diane Watt has been searching letters and landscapes for traces of one of the fifteenth-century's most intriguing figures
The Summer of 69 (Part 2 of 2)
The Moon landings gave the summer of 1969 its defining story. But elsewhere in the world many other events of consequence were playing out