In 1808, Napoleon launched a war against Spain, sparking a savage conflict that lasted nearly six years, cost half a million lives, and helped to bring down his empire. We tell the story of this war ...

In 1809, with Napoleon and his best troops bogged down in Spain, Austria decided to try to get revenge for her humiliation at ...

Passenger numbers have since picked up, and in 2023 almost 19 million people travelled by Eurostar. The company has responded ...

Widow Clicquot’ is a drama film that transports the viewers to the late 1700s as an artist with a sharp knack for business ...

Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, come January, the next four years promise to be critical in ...

Let the lion’s share of the national budget be directed toward socio-economic goods, but more resources should be allotted to national defense.” No ...

Merseyside's coastal location means it has always played an important strategic role for the British military. As a port city ...

AD: Birth of Tiberius, second emperor of the Roman Empire 1272: Henry III dies aged 65. 1380: French King Charles ...

Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...

Peter van Agtmael’s images of war and domestic strife are arresting and almost cinematically spare, but it is the careful ...

Lyrically and thematically, Powerslave saw them travelling from ancient Egypt to the very end of the 20th century and ...