Volume 54 Issue 11 November 2004

The fatalist view of the Light Brigade’s charge towards the Russian guns at Balaclava is being challenged. They had their reasons why.

June Purvis looks back at thirty years of women’s history in Britain.

When Teddy Roosevelt was re-elected, on November 8th, 1904, his words to his wife Edith were: 'My dear, I am no longer a political accident'.

Andrew Lambert explains why Nelson’s life and death should never be forgotten.

Andrew Syk investigates whether one British army division truly comprised ‘lions led by donkeys’, or whether its officers learned the lessons of their early mistakes.