“A monster of egotism”: Dominic Sandbrook reveals the secret to Admiral Nelson’s unstoppable success
A hunger for glory, a sense of destiny, and an ego that knew no limits: The Rest is History’s Dominic Sandbrook explores how Britain’s greatest naval hero was cut from the same cloth as the legendary ...
The court-martial of Robert Newburgh was about more than just his alleged crime – it was a battle over power and masculinity ...
When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.
A bankrupt treasury, disastrous foreign policy and a civil war: this is the story of how Henry III lost control of his own ...
The Nazis loved the Bayeux Tapestry. They loved it so much that they tried (and failed) to steal it away to Germany at the ...
Given the chance to interrogate one of history’s most famous figures, what would you ask? Speaking on the HistoryExtra ...
Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...
Witnessing a crime was one thing for medieval townspeople, but reporting it was another matter entirely… ...
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