Military

What did medieval contemporaries think of military orders such as the Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights? Helen Nicholson investigates.

Jonathan Riley Smith reports as Malta celebrates the anniversary of its Sovereign Military Order

Andy Lawrence insists that we must think for ourselves to unravel one of the great historical conundrums.

Ian Cawood shows how British policy-makers adapted to the changing world after 1945.

Robin Evans assesses the contribution of the Welsh to the troubles of 1642-49.

The greatest battle of Napoleon’s career took place on December 2nd, 1805. Although it is often called the Battle of the Three Emperors, Michael Adams sees it as a very personal clash between two men struggling for the mastery of Europe.

Historians have often stressed the modernity of America’s Civil War. Yet Gervase Phillips argues that the dependence on often weary, sickly horses on both sides in the war had a significant impact on the development, and final outcome of, the struggle.

Geoffrey Best considers Winston Churchill’s growing alarm about the possibility of nuclear war, and his efforts to ensure that its horrors never happened.

Robert Johnson puts the decline of a once-great Empire into an international context.

How the North won the American Civil War.