The charge of the light, battle illustration

Military history

Britons. Join Your Country's Army! (Photo by Alfred Leete/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

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The death of Kitchener: a World War One mystery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A visit to the Churchill War Rooms, London. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Inside the fort was a famous spring, St Helen’s Well, today Robin Hood’s Well. (© Bill Henderson)

Anglo-Saxon

Brunanburh: Where did the battle that saved England take place?

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the death of King Harold II during the battle of Hastings in 1066. (Photo by Getty Images)

Medieval

Where did the battle of Hastings actually take place? 8 facts about the 1066 battle

Margaret Thatcher surrounded by British soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment, during a surprise visit to the Falkland Islands, January 1983. Britain has "ceased to be a nation in retreat," declared the prime minister in the wake of the victory over Argentine forces.

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How the Falklands War fired up Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi.

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The WW2 obsession: why the world can't move on from 1945. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Max Hastings by Fran Monks

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Max Hastings on the Dambusters. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Soldiers at the battle of Arnhem

Second World War

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about the battle of Arnhem

The wrecked remains of an Allied glider that participated in Market Garden

Second World War

Why Operation Market Garden, the Allies' battle for Arnhem, was a disaster in the planning

Jan Žižka, the general whose peasant army defied the Holy Roman Empire in the 1420s.

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Christ’s communists: the radical religious sect that challenged the Holy Roman Empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Agincourt, 1415

Medieval

True-to-scale battle numbers and 15th-century life: look inside the revamped Agincourt museum

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Sir Max Hastings: “While the Dambuster raid’s strategic impact was almost nil, its propaganda value was immense”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crusaders defeat the Turks at Dorylaeum in 1097, as shown in a 14th-century illumination

Medieval

Crusaders: did they fight for God or gold?

Poles watch the first of the German invasion planes over Warsaw, 1939. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Poland, 1939: World War Two begins. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adolf Hitler watches German troops march in central Poland

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Roger Moorhouse: How Hitler’s diplomatic miscalculation led to WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Engraving depicting Chinese opium smokers in a saloon

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What caused the First Opium War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The siege of Sevastopol

Victorian

Q&AWhy did Britain fight the Crimean War?

The Pearl Harbour attack

Second World War

The 11 most significant battles of WW2

Four soliders of the 36th Sikhs, various ranks, 1896. The regiment was led in January 1897 to occupy the Samana posts, says Captain Jay Singh-Sohal. (Reproduced with permission from australiansikhheritage.com)

Victorian

The battle of Saragarhi: when 21 Sikh soldiers stood against 10,000 men

William of Orange at the battle of the Boyne

Stuart

Q&AWhen was England last successfully invaded by a foreign power?

Soldiers standing on the western front during WW2

Second World War

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Second World War

In 1358, women finally gained full knightly acceptance in England when they began to be admitted to chivalric orders. (Photo by Eugene Antonov/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Medieval

Q&ACould a woman become a knight in medieval times?

US soldiers in Vietnam

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From the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and Iraq: a history of war trauma. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A sculpture dedicated to King Leonidas of the Spartans in Thermopylae, Greece. (Photo by iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Ancient Greece

Q&AWere there really only 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae?

US infantrymen in snowdrifts

Second World War

Q&AWhy is Hitler's Ardennes campaign called the battle of the Bulge?

A depiction of the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (10 September 1547), the last formal battle between England and Scotland. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

Tudor

Q&AWhen was the last battle between England and Scotland?

Professor Dame Janet L Nelson

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Charlemagne: medieval empire builder. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustrations by Ian Morris.

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The Civil War cross-dressers: the women who swapped dresses for breeches

An illustration of the battle of Agincourt. By attacking over unsuitable ground, Charles d’Albret “doomed his army”, says Rupert Matthews. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

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The top 10 military blunders in history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The four-month Siege of Malta.

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The Great Siege of Malta, 1565: the crusaders' last stand

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