The important role of women on board ship during the Royal Navy's heyday in the 1700s and 1800s has often been overlooked. As ...

On 6th November 1917, after three months of fierce fighting, British and Canadian forces finally took control of the tiny village of Passchendaele in the West Flanders region of Belgium, so ending one ...

Northumbria was one of the great seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England, alongside East Anglia (East Angles), Essex (East Saxons), Kent, Mercia, Sussex (South Saxons) and Wessex (West Saxons).

30th January 2025 from St James’s Palace to Horse Guards, London Around 500 members of English Civil War Society will be marching through central London to commemorate the death of King Charles I in ...

From museum exhibitions, academic literature and even West End musicals, the six wives of Henry VIII have remained strong figures in the public imagination. Yet how much about them do we really know?

7th and 8th, 14th and 15th December 2024 at The Mary Rose, Main Road, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3PY Immerse yourself in the world of Henry VIII’s Tudor court with this wonderfully ...

To many people on the UK mainland and beyond, the Shetland and Orkney Islands are ‘somewhere up at the top’ of the map of Great Britain. In fact the Shetland Isles are located in the North Atlantic, ...

After defeating the Germans in Normandy in 1944, and ‘swanning’ through Belgium, the Allied armies were fighting to liberate Holland in the winter months of 1944. Beginning on 22nd October 1944, ...

The Battle of Edgehill took place on 23rd October 1642 and was the first battle of the English Civil War. In 1642, after considerable constitutional disagreements between the government and King ...

In 1737, Captain Robert Jenkins presented his severed ear to Parliament claiming a Spanish official had cut it off. This incident provided Britain, eager for a reason to declare war, with the pretext ...