Best of British
The Sporting Life
Sports memories from The Francis Frith Collection
3 min |
July 2025
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A Military Film Star
The Longmoor Military Railway, the army's own standard-gauge railway was a familiar sight in films, writes David Brown
5 min |
July 2025
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Keeping the Holmes Fires Burning
Chris Hallam reveals how Sherlock Holmes did his bit to defeat the Nazis
5 min |
July 2025
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WRITE ON TIME
Angeline Wilcox traces the history and influence of Pitman shorthand
4 min |
July 2025
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The Wooden Horse Man
Charles Rollings tells the story of airman turned author Eric Williams, who escaped from Stalag Luft III with the aid of a wooden vaulting horse
6 min |
July 2025
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Camping or Glamping?
Joyce Johnson of Heswall, Wirral remembers:
4 min |
July 2025
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Right, Charlie
David Hewitt looks back on the life of the Blackpool Tower Circus clown whose archive is a cornerstone of the town's new showbiz museum
5 min |
July 2025
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When the Heats Cools Off
Ken Duke of Harrogate, North Yorkshire remembers:
3 min |
July 2025
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Fostering the Fossils
John Reynolds of St John’s, Worcester remembers:
3 min |
July 2025
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The Lost Lionesses
Paul Rance looks back to the 1971 Women's World Cup and the former bus driver and Spanish civil war veteran who coached them
5 min |
July 2025
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Woodstock It Certainly Wasn't
Steve Anderson remembers the music festival that was more than a match for almost any British counterpart, then or since
4 min |
July 2025
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THE BRITISH INVASION
Members of 1960s bands share their memories of making it big in the US with Martin Claytor
5 min |
July 2025
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The Marvel at Much Marcle
Claire Saul visits a Herefordshire property with centuries of history, amazing stories, a major collection of privately owned art and a great green philosophy
3 min |
July 2025
History of War
REFLECTIONS OF WAR
FORGOTTEN PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1 min |
Issue 147
History of War
TODAY'S COLD WAR "INFINITELY MORE COMPLEX"
Renowned historian challenges comparisons between the Cold War and the modern world, where the stakes, players and rules of engagement are multidimensional
3 min |
Issue 147
History of War
MINSK 1941 DEATH IN THE POCKET
During the early days Operation Barbarossa, Army Group Centre's rapid advance surrounded hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers in the Białystok-Minsk area. What ensued was a catastrophic defeat for the Soviet defenders
8 min |
Issue 147
History of War
WWII THIS MONTH...80 JULY 1945 ANNIVERSARY
To commemorate 80 years since the Second World War, History of War will be taking a look at some of the key events taking place during each month of the conflict
2 min |
Issue 147
History of War
WHAT IF...RUSSIA SIGNED A SECOND PACT WITH GERMANY
With casualties mounting and citizens starving, what effect would Stalin striking another deal with Hitler have had?
9 min |
Issue 147
History of War
GOEBBELS AND THE FÜHRER
AN UNSETTLING YET TIMELY REMINDER THAT EVEN HISTORY'S WORST DEMAGOGUES WERE HUMAN
1 min |
Issue 147
History of War
COLD HARBOR
By the late spring of 1864, Ulysses S Grant's Army of the Potomac was battering its way south towards Richmond, but his forces would reach their nadir along a crossroads north of the Confederate capital
10+ min |
Issue 147
History of War
OVER COLD WAR SEAS
NATO AND SOVIET NAVAL AVIATION, 1949-89
2 min |
Issue 147
History of War
HEROES OF THE VICTORIA CROSS ALI HAIDAR
In WWII's final weeks, this British Indian Army sepoy was severely wounded in Italy while silencing multiple German machine gun nests
6 min |
Issue 147
History of War
CARRIER KILLERS
Is the US Navy still dominant in the Pacific, or is its era of ascendancy under threat?
4 min |
Issue 147
History of War
THE NAME OF TREASON VIDKUN QUISLING
Though his name became a byword for treason, this Norwegian Nazi collaborator maintained his innocence right to the end
7 min |
Issue 147
History of War
EAST AFRICA'S FORGOTTEN WAR
Why Sudan has suffered seven decades of conflict and military coups
3 min |
Issue 147
History of War
MARY ROSE GUN-SHIELD
During the excavation of Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose, divers discovered the wooden elements of up to eight shields which would originally have been fitted with matchlock guns
1 min |
Issue 147
History of War
EAGLE DAYS
LIFE AND DEATH FOR THE LUFTWAFFE IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
2 min |
Issue 147
History of War
DEFENDING BRITAIN
In the event of a Nazi invasion, Britain would have deployed a network of deadly defences to impede the enemy at every turn
9 min |
Issue 147
History of War
FIERCE BUT FLAWED? KING TIGER
The Tiger II was the largest tank used by Nazi Germany in WWII, but the behemoth was problem-prone and never had the impact on the battlefield its creators had sought
10+ min |
Issue 147
History of War
SWORD D-DAY TRIAL BY BATTLE
READ ABOUT THE TRIUMPHS AND TRAGEDIES OF THE COMMAND BRIGADE ON A SINGLE BRITISH BEACH AND BEYOND DURING THE D-DAY INVASION OF NORMANDY
1 min |