3+ hour, 13+ min ago   (363+ words) - By Roy Porter Senior Curator of Properties for English Heritage The highlight of the autumn season is our annual Battle of Hastings reenactment, this year returning on October 10 and 11 for the landmark 60th time. Hundreds of reenactors from across the country,…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (579+ words) Translate the page or open accessibility tools from the same menu. Choose a language for this page. No matching languages found. Adjust text size, contrast, link visibility, and motion from the same menu. Accessibility tools are set to default. August…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago   (345+ words) - By Roy Porter Senior Curator of Properties for English Heritage The highlight of the autumn season is our annual Battle of Hastings reenactment, this year returning on October 10 and 11 for the landmark 60th time. Hundreds of reenactors from across the country,…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago   (290+ words) - By Roy Porter Senior Curator of Properties for English Heritage The highlight of the autumn season is our annual Battle of Hastings reenactment, this year returning on October 10 and 11 for the landmark 60th time. Hundreds of reenactors from across the country,…...

4+ hour, 33+ min ago   (316+ words) Fog of War podcast traces Leon Drexler’s journey to Omaha Beach The extraordinary wartime service of a Jewish tank gunner from Brooklyn is brought to life in a new episode of “The Fog of War and Humanity,” hosted by South…...

8+ hour, 51+ min ago   (417+ words) Singer Little Pattie headed to Vietnam aged just 17 to entertain Australian troops, but wasn't prepared for a mid-show evacuation during the Battle of Long Tan. Sixty years on from Australia's most costly engagement of the Vietnam War, painful memories remain....

14+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1709+ words) For much of the early 1930s this stubby, silver biplane was Britain’s front line — the fighter that guarded London between the wars, and the one that cost Douglas Bader his legs. “A pilot’s aeroplane” — agile, sturdy, forgiving and cheap, the Bulldog…...

11+ hour, 19+ min ago   (1665+ words) It is possible to learn the wrong lesson from failure. But it may be even more dangerous to learn the wrong lesson from success. When a policy fails quickly, the reasons to change course are easier to see. The losses…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (460+ words) “It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare,” said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry. During a medieval siege, a trebuchet scored a chance hit one unlucky defender. A small boulder slammed into his upper back at close to 300 kilometers an hour, smashing bones…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1796+ words) For 82 years, Lt. Col. John Clarke Goldtrap of Casper has been in a watery grave as a POW on the sunken wreck of the brutal Japanese “hell ship” Oryoku Maru. Now his remains may finally be ID'd and brought home....