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The bronze equestrian statue of Robert the Bruce looks out over the site of the Battle of Bannockburn, Stirling, where the Scottish fought for their independence from the English in 1314. (Photo by Getty Images)

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

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A 13th-century illumination showing the coronation of Foulques and Melisende. (Photo by Alamy)

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Elizabeth I arrives in Tilbury

The Spanish Armada: one of history’s biggest fibs?

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The sun rises over the Iwo Jima Memorial In Arlington, Virginia, November 1999 (Photo by Getty Images)

World War Two: the challenge of commemoration . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A girl, with her brother on her back, trudges past a stalled American tank, South Korea, June 1951. (Photo by Alamy)

How we forgot the Korean War

John Nichol is a historian, author and RAF veteran who was captured and paraded on Iraqi television during the Gulf War, before returning to active service. He has since written several works of military history as well as a number of novels, and is a regular commentator on military affairs

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Your guide to the Lancaster bomber

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Queen Emma and her sons

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Pyongyang wreckage, Korean War

The Korean War “created a blood debt that is crucial to understanding North Korean behaviour ever since”

This photo dated 1948 shows the devastated city of Hiroshima some three years after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945, at the end of World War 2. Around 140,000 people, or more than half of Hiroshima's population at the time, died in the first atomic bombing – with another 70,000 people perishing in the bomb dropped over Nagasaki 9 August 1945. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

In pictures: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Simo Häyhä, said to be the deadliest sniper in history

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The world’s deadliest sniper: Simo Häyhä

A mushroom cloud produced by the explosion of a hydrogen bomb during Operation Ivy, an American nuclear test that took place in 1952. (SSPL/Getty Images)

How have nuclear weapons shaped global politics? 10 key moments in the post-war atomic world

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A reenactment of the Battle of Nantwich (1644) by members of the Sealed Knot. (Photo by Getty Images)

British battlefields: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian, author and RAF veteran John Nichol. (Photo by John Nichol)

The Lancaster . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Slaves of Confederate Brigadier-General Thomas F Drayton at his cotton plantation in South Carolina during the American Civil War

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The front facade of the prehistoric chambered tomb of Wayland's Smithy

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #6: Viking military mind games, Anglo-Saxon mind maps, and embroidery before the Bayeux Tapestry