Explore the momentous life of the Duke of Normandy – and later king of England, William the Conqueror – with expert insight ...

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Though overshadowed by his famous brother Harold, Tostig Godwinson played a small yet crucial part in the dramatic downfall ...

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The late tech pioneer and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley, who died in August 2025 aged 91, chose Tommy Flowers as a ...

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But for months before the devastation of the atomic bombs in August 1945, Japan had already been enduring an immense bombardment. In an effort to ratchet up pressure on Japan and force a surrender, ...

From William the Conqueror’s battle-winning cavalry to Richard III’s fatal final charge, Oliver H Creighton and Robert Liddiard explore five moments when horsepower changed the course of medieval ...

The military playbook of the ancient Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia was as calculated as it was brutal. Shaped by formidable rulers – among them Tiglath-Pileser III, Sargon II and Ashurbanipal – ...