Military history

A fanciful engraving imagines Peter the Hermit presenting Pope Urban II (centre) with a letter from Simeon II

Launching the First Crusade

Alphonse de Neuville's 1880 painting 'The Defence of Rorke's Drift'. The battle was to become a

The battle of Rorke’s Drift: a stand still clad in the “myths of empire”

An engraving depicting London's Piccadilly Circus heaving with crowds on their way to The Great Exhibition of 1851. A banner reading 'God save the Queen and Prince Albert' has been strung across the street. Within the Crystal Palace some 100,000 objects were displayed – taking up ten miles of space – the work of 15,000 contributors. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain: the decline and fall of the British empire

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

Victoria the warrior queen

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Hitler and Stalin: Laurence Rees compares the actions of the two dictators over the course of the Second World War. (Image by Getty Images)

Hitler and Stalin: tyrants at war . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean War

Victorians and war: which conflicts were fought during the Victorian era?

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Richard III

What if… Richard III had won at Bosworth? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Frank McDonough discusses his new book charting the demise of Hitler’s Germany from 1940-45. (Image by Getty Images)

The collapse of the Third Reich . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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James Holland tells the story of the dramatic Allied assault on the island of Sicily in the Second World War. (Image by Getty Images)

The battle for Sicily, 1943 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tim Grady gives a lecture exploring the varied experiences of German Jews in the First World War. (Image by Getty Images)

German Jews in WW1 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Jacqueline Riding considers whether the Jacobite prince was a valiant freedom fighter, or a haughty coward. (Image by Getty Images)

Bonnie Prince Charlie: hero or coward? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An East India Company official riding on an elephant

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

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Lauren Johnson responds to listener questions about the Wars of the Roses. (Image by Getty Images)

The Wars of the Roses: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British from the 11th Brigade 4th division and German soldiers at Ploegsteert in Belgium on Christmas Day 1914. (Photo by The Art Archive/Alamy)

First World War

Did the First World War Christmas truce football match really happen?

Appia Antica (The Appian Way), Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe. (Getty)

Invention or adaptation: what did the Romans really do for us?