Letters

Welcome

Abraham Lincoln famously said: “A house divided against itself cannot

The American Civil War

Less than a century after achieving its independence, the United

Snapshots

There are few 20th-century artists who can match Spanish surrealist

I Read the News Today

Just after 5pm on 11 May 1812, Prime Minister Spencer

Yesterday’s Papers

Before the siege, the SAS came close to being disbanded,

Graphic History

Businessman John Jakob Raskob enters the race to build New

What Happened Next...

The “miracle of deliverance” that allowed the British Expeditionary Force

The Extraordinary Tale of...

Charlie Chaplin knew (understatement alert) how to entertain, and exactly

The Merry Monarch on the Run

When Charles II fled Worcester after his defeat there in

Myth-busting the Battle of Troy

You could say that one of the biggest box office

In Pictures: the Festival of Britain

Held exactly 100 years after the Great Exhibition of 1851,

Great Adventures: Zheng He and his Treasure Fleet

During the reign of China’s Yongle Emperor in 1403, an

The History Makers: Marie Curie

The rhythmic clamour of clapping palms filled the auditorium. Shaking

Top 10: Flying Machines

Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian polymath, was centuries ahead of

Ask the Experts

Social historian, genealogist and author of Mr Darcy’s Guide to

In a Nutshell

That’s a debate that is hard to fit into a

How Did They do That?

Built in the shipbuilding heartland of the Clyde in 1869,

On Our Radar

Starts 20 May at the National Maritime Museum, London. Find

Britain’s Treasures…

This year, Bristol Old Vic becomes the only theatre in

Past Lives

The 1872 final was played at Kennington Oval, now better

Books

When we think of the Wars of the Roses, the

A-Z of History

Manfred von Richthofen – the World War I German flying