History

1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 1...

A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jewelle...

Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history b...

At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have res...

'Rigorously researched, The Lost Café Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that...

This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle...

Multiculturalism has long been linked to calls for tolerance of cultural diversity, but today many observers are subjecting the concept to close...

The American Revolutionary War pitched the newly formed Continental Army against the professional British Redcoats a highly trained organization m...

The role and consequences of slavery in the history of Africa have been brought to the fore recently in historical, anthropological and archaeologi...

With the MG 34, the German Wehrmacht introduced an entirely new concept in automatic firepower the general-purpose machine gun (GPMG). In itself t...

Haworth Parsonage is the world-famous home of the Brontes. Crowds of tourists are drawn to Haworth every year to discover what inspired Anne, Charl...

For hundreds of years the design of fishing boats has followed traditional methods. Mike Smylie, author of Traditional Fishing Boats of Britain &am...

If it had not been for Owain Glyndwr's 15-year struggle against overwhelming odds, the Welsh would not have survived as Europe's oldest nation. His...