The charge of the light, battle illustration

Military history

BBC History Magazine

A World on Fire

BBC History Magazine

War: A Short History

The Abingdon Sword, an iron sword fragment and hilt found near Abingdon in Oxfordshire in 1874. The decoration on the sword hilt indicates this was a high status weapon dating from around AD 875. (Ashmolean Museum/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Fighting the Vikings.

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The Admiral Benbow: The Life and Times of a Naval Legend

Burma: Why its military dictatorship still survives

Second World War

Pearl Harbor: 3 historical films about the Japanese attack on the US fleet

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Royal Tars of Old England

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The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land

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Bloodied Banners: Martial Display on the Medieval Battlefield

What was the significance of the battle of Wigan Lane?

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Zulu Rising

The American Civil War in 3 films

Second World War

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital 1939–45

Q&A: Why didn't Napoleon invade the Channel Islands?.

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Victory at Poitiers: The Black Prince and the Medieval Art of War

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Warrior Generals: Winning the British Civil Wars

Bataan Death March

Q&A: Did Japan ever sign the Geneva Convention after the Second World War?.

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Has Britain always united behind commemorations of the war dead?

Where history happened: Dunkirk.

The Battle of Marathon plus Dunkirk and WWII refugees.

The LibraryThe fall of France: Hitler’s greatest gamble.

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Distant Drums

Guernsey’s child evacuees.

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Operation Kronstadt

Charles Théveneau de Morande: an 18th-century French spy in London.

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Pitt the Elder: Man of War

Nine Wartime Lives

Where the Bosworth battle really happened and a detailed look at rationing.

The battle of Bosworth site. (Photo by Darren Walker/Dreamstime)

The LibraryBosworth: did gunpowder win the day?.

A helmet marks a trail over fields from the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, 2013. The site is close to the spot where the battle of Bosworth took place in 1485, and the place where King Richard III was killed. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Bosworth: the race to find the battlefield.