Military history

Dan Jones. (Photograph by Steve Sayers)

Exclusive podcast Dan Jones on the human stories of the crusades

Engraving depicting a scene from the battle of Crécy, during the Hundred Years' War. Dated 14th Century. (Photo by: Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The battle of Crécy: triumph of the longbow

The 'Alexander Mosaic' showing Alexander the Great

6 things you (probably) didn’t know about Alexander the Great

The tomb of Pharaoh Djoser, built at Saqqara

General ancient history

Timeline: the evolution of ancient empires

Battle of Bosworth, 22 August 1485

10 things you need to know about the battle of Bosworth

Print of Hannibal ferrying his elephants over the Rhone on rafts during the Second Punic War

Your guide to... the Punic Wars

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan: the Mongol warlord who almost conquered the world

Male and female militia fighters on the march at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, July 1936. (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Spanish Civil War, but were afraid to ask

Marble relief depicting the Praetorian Guard, legionnaires and elite soldiers. In the Louvre, Paris, France. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Praetorian Guard: the emperors’ fatal servants

Historian Peter Caddick-Adams

Second World War

Exclusive podcast Peter Caddick Adams on whether D-Day could have failed

The 11th East Africa Infantry Division fought with the British Fourteenth Army in Burma (Myanmar) during the Burma Campaign, 1944. (Photo by Alamy)

Second World War

Victory in the east

Photographs documenting the facial reconstruction of a soldier whose cheek was extensively wounded during the Battle of the Somme

First World War

What happened to the 8 million people who were disabled during WW1?

Night view of people jammed into Times Square, New York, celebrating the end of the war in Europe. (Photo by Herbert Gehr/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty

Second World War

Was 1945 the world’s zero?

Hiroshima.

Second World War

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Mural of the battle of Actium from 1600

Actium, 31 BC: the beginning of the end for Mark Antony and Cleopatra