History

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!

The British Navy outfought a numerically larger enemy - the combined fleets of France and Spain - with more guns and many more men to foil Bonapartes plan to invade England and thereby achieve world domination.

Anna writes of her's and the nation's hero, Horatio Nelson.

On 21 October 1966, a waste heap of 300,000 cubic yards, some 111 feet high, culpably placed over an underground spring and, thanks to recent heavy, oversaturated and highly unstable started to slide................

Iain Hunter, in his article Unacceptable Opinions, set out an opinion that the Israeli intelligence failure of 7 Ooctober was so dire that it must have been deliberate, designed to give Israel the excuse for an all out war on Hamas and ultimately, establish itself in Gaza. I strongly disagree, so…

On the anniversary of the despicable Hamas attack on Israel a year ago, we look at trhe miracle of the creation of the State of Israel.

Former Royal Navy Officer Mark Smith recounts his battles with bureaucrats, naval and civilian, to get a warship-building project through to completion.

Think the Second World War begand in September 1939 with the German invasion of Poland? Think again, it began eight years earlier and four and a half thousand miles away.

Duke Maskell reminds us of the first stage of the African slave trade.

Xandra H on Woke Universities and their distaste for Anglo-Saxon studies.

Contrary to what many think, the Jews have had a continuous presence in the Holy Land for over 3,000 years.

Eighty-four years ago today, on Sunday 15th September 1940, the German Luftwaffe launched its largest and most concentrated attacks against London with the aim of drawing Fighter Command of the Royal Air Force into a battle of annihilation.

Duke Maskell on the decline if the Spectator, circa 2008

A parable of modern times from the 1930s.