Article first published in History Today , 12 April 2016. ‘I shall never play at Twickenham again’, twenty-five year old Lt Ronald Poul...

The names of 75 courageous women from 13 nations are etched into a beautiful memorial at RAF Tempsford,   home of the Special Duties Squadro...

Hiroshima: City of Peace Seventy years ago this month, on Monday 6 August 1945, the nuclear bomb known as ‘Little Boy’ was dropped on Hiro...

Fighting Cocks and Showcased Skeletons, or Respect in Retrospect The record of history is a living thing, not just connecting people acros...

Last weekend marked 100 years since the start of the First World War’s tragic Gallipoli land offensive, aimed at securing the strategic peni...

In 1939 Dame Stephanie Shirley’s father, a distinguished German judge, tried to prepare his daughters for a new life in England by teaching ...

This month The Folio Society republished one of the great memoirs of the Second World War; Xan Fielding’s Hide & Seek . Described by Ant...

When we think about the Holocaust today, we mostly remember the victims, perpetrators, bystanders and collaborators. We should also think ab...