Military history

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague, in which four Catholic officials were thrown from a top-floor window of Prague (Hradčany) Castle by Bohemian Protestant activists, starting the Thirty Years' War. (Photo by Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

The 1618 Defenestration of Prague explained

The battle of Towton during the War of the Roses, 1461. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

12 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Wars of the Roses

Podcast Website large Antony Beevor

Second World War

Beevor on Arnhem

A painting depicting the battle of the White Mountain

Europe’s apocalypse: the Thirty Years’ War

From The Library

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

Second World War

Arnhem: A disaster in the planning

From The Library

Members of 617 squadron, known as the Dambusters

Second World War

How successful was the Dambusters raid?

Expelled Germans leaving Poland's western territories

Second World War

After VE Day: The war without an end

Viking Berserker figures. The one on the left is wearing a helmet with horns. His companion wears the mask of a wolf or bear. Sweden, 6th century. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The truth about Viking berserkers

Australian troops head for Gallipoli in 1915

First World War

The myths of the battle of Gallipoli

Australian troops (widely known as ‘Diggers’) at Anzac Cove in April 1915

First World War

Gallipoli: a defining moment in Australian history

British military behind a barricade, 1916. (Photo by ullstein picture via Getty Images)

First World War

The Easter Rising: when Ireland went to war

Norsk Hydro's Vermork plant

Second World War

The Special Operations Executive: Churchill’s secret army

From The Library

Thomas Becket

England’s forgotten civil war

From The Library

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, depicting the Norman invasion of 1066. The majority of historians now agree that the tapestry was probably commissioned by Odo of Bayeux, the half-brother of Duke William. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

5 Bayeux Tapestry facts: what is it, why was it made and what story does it tell?