History

I always suspected there would be no VCs hidden away in sock drawers, based upon another one of my mum’s wartime stories: “your dad was demoted from corporal to private after punching a conscientious objector”!

In the annals of naval history, few journeys are as fascinating as Admiral George Anson’s circumnavigation of the globe during the War of Jenkins’ Ear, part of a wider war against Spain. It was a voyage conceived by armchair strategists who ordered men across the seas with little care for their…

On Saturday, Sunday and Monday last the North Sea and German Ocean was visited by a series of the most terrific gales that have been known for very many years. Much damage has been caused thereby to scores of our fishing vessels and vessels of heavier tonnage have fared even worse than they. But we…

The first British casualties of the war occurred just hours after it was declared, when Athenia was torpedoed by the U-30 on 3rd September 1939 resulted in the loss of 112 lives. No phoney war at sea. The last casualties of the war with Germany were also at sea, when Avondale Park was torpedoed by…

Graham's great grandfather’s trawler was lost at sea in February 1915, possibly as a result, like many others, by enemy action.

St George’s Day 1376 marked the beginning of a significant unrest in England, culminating in the Peasant's Revolt.

There have been whispers - no doubt wishful thinking - about a military coup to rid us of this evil government. It isn't going to happen - and what happened the last time there were such whispers.

The Second part of a satire under construction.

Were the 80s a Golden Age?

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, but the main lesson to be learned from the Holocaust is wilfully ignored.

On this day, 20 January, seven hundred and sixty years ago in 1265. Simon De Montfort, Earl of Leicester, the leader of a group of barons rebelling against King Henry III, summoned England’s first parliament.

I felt I had to come back to this because, while I laid out what was a clear anti-socialist position in Socialism - Whats’s Not to Hate, I really gave it a bit of an easy pass. I let those who promote it, and force it on others, off the hook.

The Battle of Ashdown, on this day in 871 AD, prevented the Viking domination of Britain and changed history.

At what point is it legitimate for the law abiding to resort to civil disobedience against a tyranny?

The Left often ignorantly claims that Britain is a nation of immigrants. Iain Hunter proves here that this is nonsense.

Starting on 8th August, led by the British Army, the Allies began the offensive that led to the end of the First World War.

This Sunday, 10th November, the annual Remembrance Parade for our war dead takes place in Whitehall. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front. Every year at that time on the Sunday nearest to the 11th, the nation listens to…

The First World War is often described as pointless, futile. Demosthenes argues that, on the contrary, it was necessary for national survival.

Ponty starts off our build-up to Remembrance Day with a much delayed tale of a D-Day Revival do 80 years after the real thing.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!