Military

Peter Anderson identifies the groups, the grievances and the events which started the war.

The events leading up to Britain and France's declarations of war on Russia on successive days on 27 and 28 March 1854.

Rana Mitter recalls the career of a man who once ruled an area larger than France and Germany, but who spent forty years in Chiang Kai-shek’s gaols.

A group of second-year students from Southampton University present the results of a collaborative research project.

David Williamson explains why events in Berlin twice threatened to unleash a third world war.

Jeremy Black calls for a more wide-ranging, inclusive approach to the history of warfare.

Juliet Gardiner investigates two new books on wartime society in Britain during the Second World War.

As the government prepares to bring casinos to our high streets, John Childs looks at a gambling craze of the 1690s.

Penny Ritchie Calder of the Imperial War Museum introduces a major new exhibition for this autumn.

The succession of conflicts known as the Hundred Years War ended on October 19th, 1453, when Bordeaux surrendered, leaving Calais as the last English possession in France.