Richard Dimbleby’s account of what he witnessed at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 has become infamous in Britain. Less well known is the work of two other BBC employees who made radio programmes about Belsen shortly after the camp’s liberation.
The bombing of the King David Hotel – the British headquarters in Mandatory Palestine – killed 91. What role did terrorism play in the birth of the state of Israel?
Martin Pugh revisits one of the most bitter disputes in history and assesses its impact on industrial relations and the wider political landscape of the twentieth century.
The expansion of the United States in the mid-19th century had a catastrophic effect on the Native Americans of the Great Plains.
The US army’s mass murder of unarmed civilians at My Lai became a watershed in public perceptions of the Vietnam War.
Lynn McDonald describes the lasting impact of Florence Nightingale on improving public health for the poor.
Edward the Confessor, the last truly Anglo-Saxon king of England, became an embodiment of pacific and idealistic medieval kingship under Henry III. Why?
Was Margaret Thatcher’s government close to defeat during the dark days of the miners’ strike of 1984-85?
The fatalist view of the Light Brigade’s charge towards the Russian guns at Balaclava is being challenged. They had their reasons why.
Richard English argues that historians have a practical and constructive role to play in today’s Ulster.
