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Protecting merchant ships during the Napoleonic Wars, the British convoy system was instrumental in securing its narrow victory. 

Arriving in the remote and jungled highlands of Annam, a swindling Frenchman was able to establish himself as the region’s self-appointed ruler. 

200 years on from the deciphering of the most famous piece of rock in the world, what does reading the Rosetta Stone reveal?

Emulating her godmother, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Stuart captured hearts and minds as Europe burned. 

Dismissed as ‘high and mighty’ and accused of pushing Charles I towards civil war, Henrietta Maria was a deft military mover – perhaps more so than the king himself.

The Battle of Stalingrad began in August 1942, subjecting its residents to months of living hell. But few doubted that the city was worth defending; its significance to the Soviet project made it too important to abandon.

Early modern methods of execution were carefully calculated to inflict shame upon the condemned. 

What relevance do the Norman Conquest and the events of 1066 have to contemporary British politics? Everything and nothing.

Fleeing his father’s empire, an Afghan prince travelled from Kabul to Sindh via Mecca, becoming a fugitive, courtier and pilgrim in the process.