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As the snow melted in the spring of 1942, Leningraders emerged from the worst winter experienced by a population under siege. Amid a mounting death toll driven by starvation, cold, [...]

The Second World War saw grand military strategy play out on the largest scale ever seen, stretching across most of the globe. Shaping this complex strategic situation were what historian [...]

Scotland's King James IV was a quintessential Renaissance prince, ruling his kingdom in an era when the great works of Greece and Rome were being recovered and classical culture reborn [...]

According to the Oxford Companion to World War II: 'Only Model and Keitel among the German generals rivalled [Ferdinand] Schorner as a devotee to Hitler.' It is probably also fair [...]

In the early hours of 26 September 1944, the exhausted survivors of British 1st Airborne began to evacuate the northern bank of the Rhine. This was the shameful culmination of [...]

This glider was a terrifying way to enter battle. The troops in the fuselage couldn't see outside, and their first warning that they were about to go into action was [...]

During the predawn hours of 30 January 1968, the Vietnam War took on a new dimension--and the thin line between life and death became all too real for Specialist Five [...]

8 May--26 June 1945 SETIF AND GUELMA MASSACRES 01 On the same day that Nazi Germany surrenders, Algerian anti-colonial activists protest in Setif and Guelma. The demonstrations are violently repressed [...]

By 1782 peace talks in the American War of Independence had already begun. The 'rebels' of the 13 colonies that were to create the new nation of the United States, [...]

Politics hardly has a nice clean image, does it? Sometimes called 'the dirty game', it feels like every other day a politician somewhere in the world becomes the subject of [...]

On 25 June 1950, approximately 135,000 troops from the North Korean People's Army (NKPA) advanced across the 38th parallel, and for months the conflict with the Republic of Korea (ROK) [...]

Shipwrecks can reveal fascinating details about the ancient world. They can tell us what goods people were trading, how ships were being built and can even provide information on the [...]

The world-famous Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) was founded in 1852 in London as the Museum of Manufactures. Since then, it has become the largest museum of art and design [...]

The Inca Empire's meteoric rise to dominance over 10 million citizens was owed in no small part to its formidable military. From their humble beginnings dominating their neighbours in the [...]

Coming to the throne on 1 April 1081, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos managed to stabilise the tottering Byzantine Empire. However, the Seljuk Turkish Empire now ran almost to the gates [...]

Sitting in the Basilica San Domenico church of Siena is the preserved head of a woman. Though undoubtedly for some it's a gruesome thing to behold, for many Catholics it's [...]

The term Caliphate is probably familiar to some extent to anyone who follows the news. Its recent invocation, largely by extremist religious figures, has brought it into geopolitical discourse. But [...]

6 September 1997 PRINCESS DIANA'S FUNERAL On 31 August 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car accident in Paris. A week later, her funeral was held at [...]

The fact that most Canadians aren't familiar with De Wolf's name is truly baffling. One of the most effective and battle-hardened ship captains of the Second World War, the total [...]

THE ANNOUNCEMENT IN late June focused largely on federal government messaging about the naming of the class- going forward the CSC will be known as the River-class. The CSC is [...]

Following the death of Stalin in 1953, sport had increasingly become an important pillar of the Soviet Union. Great effort had been made to re-engage with international sporting communities following [...]

The origins of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) are labyrinthine, complex and easily fill several books. Triggered by the death of Emperor Charles VI, it was essentially a [...]

Stuck in the power politics of the Great War, Italy was enthusiastic to join the German war effort following the defeat of France, believing it would significantly grow its African [...]

Floods, famine, pestilence. For the hard-pressed peasants of Yuan China, ruled over by the domineering descendants of the Mongol conquerors who had established themselves as overlords of the land, the [...]

Throughout history, monsters and mythical creatures have haunted the societies and cultures that created them. From hydras to Gorgons to cyborgs, the monsters humans have imagined reflect our worst fears [...]

If you go looking for the seven wonders of the ancient world today, you are in for a disappointment. You will search in vain to find more than a few [...]

The widespread use of photography during the 19th century was a significant advancement for the Victorians, providing them with a new, visual way to document and celebrate their lives. The [...]

When people think of the Ottoman Empire, they often picture grand sultans and their viziers ruling over large swathes of land from their luxurious bases in what is now Istanbul. [...]

8 August 1963 THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY In the early hours of the morning on 8 August 1963, a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London was stopped and [...]

In 1972, Stanley Cohen published his monumental work Folk Devils and Moral Panics. The book is widely credited for defining the latter term, but just what is a 'moral panic'? [...]

As the Great War was coming to a close, a new perceived threat faced Europe: Bolshevism. Standing in the way of the 'Reds' were the 'White' Russians: a jumbled amalgamation [...]

The red brick Roman walls of Carlisle loomed high over Cuthbert. The bishop of Lindisfarne had only arrived the day before, after a long and weary journey, and already his [...]

The Royal Navy's Battle Class destroyers were designed specifically for war in the Pacific against the Imperial Japanese Navy. The previous 'war emergency' destroyer programme produced 112 ships that were [...]

Lieutenant-Colonel Arvo Roininen, the Finnish 26th Heavy Battery commander, jumped as his radio crackled to life. The date was 30 June, 1944, and reports were coming in that the elite [...]

In September 1946, the British military government of occupied Germany, and its Soviet opposite number, signed an agreement formalising a military liaison between the two newly neighbouring powers. The idea [...]

'They would have killed without compunction.' This quotation is taken from Mr Bunting at War. Written in 1942, Robert Greenwood's novel describes the wartime experience of an 'ordinary' British civilian. [...]

14 December 1939-1 March 1940 PLANNING INVASION German command devises Operation Weserubung, an ambitious plan to invade Norway and Denmark simultaneously with landings from Narvik to Copenhagen, spreading the entire [...]

1. General Dynamics Mission Systems General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) showcased their DIGITALspine C4ISR technology, demonstrating how drone footage without metadata can be standardized to create actionable targeting information. In [...]

The man who would be credited with saving the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) was born on October 2, 1875, aboard the P&O (1) steamer Surat while it crossed the Indian [...]

Victorian Britain was not a safe time in which to be queer. Until 1861 intercourse between two males was punishable by death and from 1885, the Labouchere Amendment decried that [...]

Before and during the 12 years of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler was the target of dozens of assassination plots. Hitler stirred the people, rising to power through cunning, shrewdness, [...]

Human burials are some of the most poignant and famous archaeological remains that survive from the ancient world. People were buried in a variety of ways, from being entombed within [...]

There are few women from the mid-20th century whose legacies remain as iconic and tragic today as they were during their heyday. Marilyn Monroe would be the obvious example, as [...]

In spring 334 BCE, the 22-year-old Macedonian king, Alexander III, invaded the vast Achaemenid Persian Empire with a small yet elite army of some 30,000-43,000 veteran infantry and 5,000 cavalry. [...]

Criminality and lawlessness have historically gone hand in hand with major conflicts. Whether perpetrated by the combatants involved or by those on the sidelines, profiteering or exploiting the chaos of [...]

Few accidents in history occupy the kind of legendary, pop-culture status as the devastating Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. With thousands killed or injured - by acute radiation syndrome among [...]