The charge of the light, battle illustration

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Picture of Throrolf slaying Earl Hring

The battle of Brunanburh: the forgotten fight that changed British history

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Nuclear apocalypse in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Disciplining the “scum of the Earth”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wrens help transport a torpedo to a submarine in Portsmouth, 1943. The WRNS was viewed as the most exclusive of the women’s auxiliary services (Photo by Lt. J A Hampton/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

Second World War

Wrens at warLife in the Women's Royal Naval Service in WW2

Britain’s WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The Iraq War, 20 years on. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pupils in a museum

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Orthodox monks (backed by Russia) and Catholic clerics (backed by France) both tried to stake their claim to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Why did the Crimean War start?

Applying economic pressure and blocking bulky Russian exports helped win the war, says Professor Lambert

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Roger Fenton’s assistant, Marcus Sparling, poses with their mobile ‘Photographic Van’

The major innovations of the Crimean War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrayal of the Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light BrigadeWho blundered in the Valley of Death?

The Queen distributing the Crimea Medal, Horseguards Parade, London, c1850s, (1888).

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The Battle of Sinop.

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The Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava, 1854. Artist Hayes, Michael Angelo (1820-1877).

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A painting of Hannibal leading his men into Italy in 218 BC, seated on top a war elephant (Photo by Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo)

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Sat in his Spitfire adorned with Figaro the Cat is decorated Second World War fighter pilot Ian Gleed, who had to hide his homosexuality (Photo by Royal Air Force Official Photographer/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

Second World War

Hiding in plain sightThe prejudice and tolerance of homosexuality in WW2 armed forces

A painting shows Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in October 1812. Tens of thousands of his troops perished over the winter months that followed

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Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

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Refusing to fight in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The commandos head off in José Ferrer’s Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

Second World War

Cockleshell Heroes: the real story of WW2's Operation Frankton

Alexander the Great dressed as a Byzantine emperor

The remarkable afterlife of Alexander the Great. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1908, showing Ferdinand I of Bulgaria declaring independence (centre) and Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary seizing Bosnia and Herzegovina from a forlorn-looking Ottoman sultan, Abdülhamid II (Photo by Archives Charmet / Alamy Images)

Divided they fell: how war, revolution and sectarianism led to the end of the Ottoman empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Men of the SAS returning from a three-month trip behind enemy lines during the war in North Africa. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

“They changed the way war is run”: Ben Macintyre on the early SAS. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Colditz captives including (third left) the famous escapee Pat Reid.

Second World War

Ben McIntyre on Colditz: "The reality of Colditz is much more interesting than the black-and-white moral fable"

This statue of Alfred the Great stands in Winchester, the former 'capital' of his kingdom (Photo by TonyBaggett via Getty Images)

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On Havana waterfront, Cuban soldiers wait by anti-aircraft artillery, after receiving warning of an invasion from the United States

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A member of a Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) patrol, May 1942

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