The charge of the light, battle illustration

Military history

The Somme and the Jacobites.

Hurricane fighter planes taking off from Gravesend after being refuelled and rearmed, during the Battle of Britain. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

The Battle of Britain: a brilliant triumph that involved far more than just the chosen few.

Second World War

In pictures: The Blitz

North Sea oil and the Blitz.

Michael Wood on... the battle of Agincourt.

Killing Mussolini.

Cuban photographer Alberto Korda

Q&AWhere did the famous portrait of Che Guevara come from?.

Henry VII is crowned near Bosworth

Q&AWhat Happened After The Battle of Bosworth?.

Lady Murasaki writing 'The Tale of Genji'

5 female trailblazers from history.

The Pacific War and First World War black soldiers.

Timeline: the countdown to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Second World War

12 things you should know about Churchill’s Second World War tunnels under the White Cliffs of Dover

India at war and mining accidents.

Q&AWhy didn't Canada join the colonies in the American Revolutionary War?

The Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo

Why Waterloo fires our imaginations.

Denis Dighton's painting shows the defeat of Napoleon's Imperial Guard at Waterloo

10 moments that decided the Waterloo campaign.

Waterloo 200 special.

Waterloo: what was the battle like for Wellington’s Redcoats?.

A dead German soldier during the Antwerp offensive

The LibraryArdennes 1944: Hitler's last gamble.

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum.

A Roman galley warship

Q&AHow did a crow help Rome defeat Carthage?

The Battle of the Bulge and children of the Holocaust.

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about London’s first zeppelin raid in 1915.

the streets of London on VE Day, 8 May 1945

The unsung heroes who won the war.

The history of India and a terrible explosion.

VE Day special.

Female warriors from Benin

Q&AHas there ever been a women-only army?

A painting showing the defeat of the Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada: all at sea.

How to lead like Saladin.

Picture of General Ambrose Everett Burnside

Q&AWhy are whiskers on men's jowls called 'sideburns'?