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Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularised in medieval European literat...

The Second World War (193945) was not greeted with the same lavish outpouring of patriotic fervour that had attended August 1914. Any rags of glory...

The Great War 19141918 was dubbed the war to end all wars and introduced the full flowering of industrial warfare to the world. The huge enthusiasm...

Just over a decade after the first successful powered flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As ...

On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded...

The Little Book of Newcastle is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which...

The Battle for Alesia was a decisive moment in world history. It determined whether Rome would finally conquer Gaul or whether Celtic chieftain Ver...

In the autumn of 1644 was fought one of the most sustained and desperate sieges of the First Civil War when Scottish Covenanter forces under the Ea...

When the harrowing Great War diaries of one of Britains first black soldiers were unearthed in a dusty Scottish attic nearly 100 years after they w...

The Battle of Flodden in 1513 was the largest battle ever to take place between England and Scotland. James IV himself led an army of 30,000 men ov...