The charge of the light, battle illustration

Military history

The Tibetan plateau lies at an altitude averaging over 4,500 metres above sea level

In the footsteps of Sir Francis Younghusband's 1903 invasion of Tibet.

The impact of war and a zoological institution.

Parson's Lodge Battery in Rosia Bay, Gibraltar. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Gibraltar

The Battle of Britain.

The USS Arizona burning in Pearl Harbor following the Japanese attack. To the left of her are USS Tennessee and the sunken USS West Virginia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

How did the rest of the world react to the attack on Pearl Harbor?.

The attack on Pearl Harbor and physics through the ages.

Photo of gauntlets

Q&AWhy do we say throw down the gauntlet?

Peter Snow’s six most important documents in history.

Sky covered by smoke from the first H-Bomb explosion at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific, 1 April 1954. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Winston Churchill: atomic warrior, nuclear peacemaker.

The wartime SAS and Hitler’s drug addiction.

Reporting from war zones.

The end game: Britain’s role in Afghanistan 1947–50.

The Harrying of the North. Gouache on paper, by Patrick Nicolle (1907–95). Private collection. (© Look and Learn/Bridgeman Images)

Occupation, resistance, subjugation: the bloody aftermath of 1066.

Q&A: If the battle of Hastings had never taken place, would British history have been any different?

The Norman Conquest.

The battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066. (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy Stock Photo)

1066 – how the Viking diversion cost Harold his throne.

The London & North Western Railway locomotive Jeanie Deans picking up water at Bushey Troughs, 1899. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Europe’s century of peace and progress.

Historical television and the battle of Flodden.

Churchill's army: the wartime leader’s military track record examined.

Cold War summits.

The end of the First World War and the Duke of Wellington.

Royal palaces of the Hundred Years’ War.

The Suez crisis and the north of England.

Soviet missiles in Red Square during the May Day Parade of 1962, the year the world came closest to nuclear war. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

History explorer: the Cold War.

The Cold War and the history of philosophy.

British reserve troops waiting to move up to the forward area during the battle of the Somme, France, 1916. Photograph from the Daily Herald Archive. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images)

The Somme: was it really a monstrous failure?.

Events leading up to the battle of Hastings, and the conflict itself, are depicted in the Bayeux tapestry, a 68-metre-long embroidered frieze probably made within 20 years of the Conquest. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Bayeux unravelled: the scenes behind the threads.

Monument to the Spanish Civil War (Dreamstime)

Spain’s very international civil war.

British soldiers arrive to take part in the battle of France, 1940. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Books interview with Daniel Todman: "Everything that happened in 1940 isn't somehow down to Winston Churchill".

Battle of the Somme special.