The charge of the light, battle illustration

Military 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'?

First World War

In pictures: WWI submarines

BBC History Magazine

In pictures: Newark's National Civil War Centre

Second World War

Second World War heroes ‘had most sex appeal’

Shakespeare and war in the Middle East

A still from a 1960 film about the Alamo, showing the chapel being covered by troops

Remember the Alamo! What happened in the 1836 siege and battle?

First World War

How did WW1 end?

A British major pictured in German captivity

"How I fell captive to the Germans": the experience of First World War PoWs

A demonstrator vents his spleen at police officers during an anti-Vietnam War rally in London's Grosvenor Square

Britain at war over Vietnam

Living through the Crusades: 3 poems and songs that reveal how medieval people felt about the holy war