by admin | Apr 18, 2024 | April 2024, History, Latest News
History is a living subject, history is being made every day. It may be referred to as news or current affairs but it is history nonetheless. Military and social history is being created day by day in Ukraine and in Gaza. History is happening here too. Not least among...
by admin | Feb 29, 2024 | History, Latest News, March 2024
By Ian Langworthy Historian and Battlefield Guide As a Battlefield guide I take groups of adults and children of all ages to the battlefields in Western Europe and when people ask me about what I do the almost invariable response is that they remember going from...
by admin | Feb 1, 2024 | February 2024, History, Latest News
Any reference to cavalry conjures up images of courageous horsemen charging across the battlefield running down the enemy but an image of Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion perhaps doesn’t have quite the same romantic magic. However, the role carried out by them was...
by admin | Jan 1, 2024 | History, January 2024, Latest News
By Ian Langworthy Historian and Battlefield Guide By the time that you read this article the chances are that you will have made your resolutions and in most cases have already broken them but I did think that you might be interested in how the making of New Years...
by admin | Nov 28, 2023 | December 2023, History
By Ian Langworthy Historian and Battlefield Guide It is only a couple of years ago since, due to Covid, Christmas celebrations, if not cancelled, were limited to small gatherings of immediate family members. But what if Christmas was cancelled altogether and you...
by admin | Nov 1, 2023 | History, November 2023
It is the time of year again when at 11 a.m. on 11th November (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) that we remember the sacrifice of the thousands of men and women of the United Kingdom of England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland armed...
