At the beginning of the twentieth century the then civilised world had everything to look forward to: the industrialisation of the previous hundred...

At the end of 1944, the Nazi army was retreating on both fronts, but not yet defeated. In the east, the Soviets were pushing the Germans westward, ...

Broomsticks and cauldrons, familiars and spells: magic and witchcraft conjures a vivid picture in our modern-day imagination. While much of our und...

This book is a compilation of different stories and information about the people who died in several different wars in 2013.

This book is a compilation of different stories and information about the people who died in several different wars in 2013

With a predictable regularity the film Battle of Britain appears annually, on cue, in the TV schedules for late summer. It's Showing serves as an a...

1940 was a grim year for Britain. The war looked hopeless; France had fallen to the Nazis. and there were widespread fears of a German invasion of ...

The war was over, new technologies and fashions were springing up; it was to be the beginning of a new and prosperous era and all was to be bright ...

In 1706 19-year-old Mary Channing was convicted of poisoning her husband and became the last woman to be burned at the stake in Dorset. Despite her...

Power, glory, bloodshed, prayer: cathedrals in the UK are as much about human drama as spiritual sanctuary, as much about political wrangling as re...

Warfare was a crucial aspect of Celtic society, deeply linked to the spreading of their culture through all Europe. Between the fifth century BC, w...

Graverobbers, prime-movers in geo-politics, jailbirds, international football celebs. Such terms are not usually associated with women in the 1920s...

The story of the struggle for Normandy is an appalling one; the battle was, in Erwin Rommel's words, "one terrible blood-letting". The operation wh...

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. With the echo of that chilling injunction hundreds were accused and tried for witchcraft across England thro...

Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for research...

Keeping the Home Fires Burning tells the story of how the troops and the general public were kept happy and content during the First World War. Bet...

Outlander has brought the story of the 1745 Jacobite uprising to the popular imagination, but who were the Jacobites, really? Explore this pivotal ...

Outlander has brought the story of the 1745 Jacobite uprising to the popular imagination, but who were the Jacobites, really? Explore this pivotal ...

In a single volume, Empire at War catalogues and offers a brief description of every significant battle fought by the Roman Empire from Augustus to...

James Grant (1822 - 1887) was a Scottish author. Grant was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was a distant relation of Sir Walter Scott. He was a pr...

A fresh perspective on the history of the post-war period, and the plight of a traumatised nation. We know that millions of soldiers were scarred b...

The wars fought in Scotland's northern and western highlands between the ninth and fourteenth centuries were a key stage in the military history of...

A wall in the distant north cuts the world in two. Ruthless seaborne warriors raid the coasts from their war galleys, yearning to regain lost glori...

Based in Perthshire, the Murray family played an important role in all Jacobite rebellions, whether as rebels or supporters of the government. Duri...