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David Harrison considers one of the greatest but most underrated achievements of the medieval world: the hundreds of bridges that defined the British communication system up to the 19th century.

The queen of Castile died on November 24th, 1504.

On November 1st, 1954, an insurrection broke out in Algeria.

Glenn Richardson looks at almost nine hundred years of enmity, jealousy and mutual fascination, a hundred years after the Entente Cordiale.

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.

Philip Carter celebrates the lives reclaimed by the newly-published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.