THIS MONTH IN HISTORY: NOVEMBER

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned

On a beautiful summer’s morning almost 110 years ago, men of the British Army stepped out into no-man’s land at 7.30am. It was 1 July 1916, and the start of what was then called ‘The Big Push’. With h

50 TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH INTRODUCTION FROM PETER JAMES

Thomas Jones Barker completed this enormous painting to commemorate the Crimean War’s last major action