Erwin Rommel Part II: The Poison Chalice
Field-Marshal Rommel’s reputation for daring was undeniable but his ability as a Commander had been brought into question more than once. …
Erwin Rommel Part One: The Desert Fox
By January 1942, the war in the Western Desert was not going well for the Allies, so much so that the British Prime Minister Winston …
Harris’s List: Prostitutes and Pimps of Old London Town
By the latter half of the eighteenth century London was the commercial and financial centre of the world, a city teeming with more than a …
French Revolutionary Calendar
Revolutions are rarely as they first appear but merely the (often) violent overthrow of one regime and its replacement by another with the …
Hitler as a Young Artist
Even as a child Adolf Hitler had an exalted opinion of himself, a self-regard that was both nurtured and encouraged by his …
Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England
Beyond the glittering Court of the Virgin Gloriana, Elizabethan England was a place of great hardship and harsh punishments which faced …
William Powell Frith: A Victorian Chronicler
Arguably the most popular artist of the Victorian era William Powell Frith was born in the village of Aldfield in Yorkshire on 19 January …
Battle of Omdurman: Blood in the Sand
On the morning of 26 January 1885, after 319 days of siege the city of Khartoum in the Sudan fell to the forces of Muhammad Ahmed, the …
Flora MacDonald: The Reluctant Jacobite
She should have died in obscurity having lived a life unremarked upon in a place as remote from the public consciousness as it was by …
The Fox Sisters: A Victorian Deception
The 1840’s were a time of great uncertainty in the United States with immigration from Germany, Scandinavia, and in particular famine hit …
Lydia Litvyak: The White Rose of Stalingrad
Millions of women served in World War Two, in the factories, on the land, as nurses and support staff work not free of danger but where …
Belle Starr: The Bandit Queen
Belle Starr is one of the most famous women to emerge from the Wild West and like others such as Calamity Jane and ‘Big Nose’ Kate …