Christmas at Chartwell with Churchill
An extract from Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm by Katherine Carter. The magic of Christmas at Chartwell was its constancy….
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The Royal Navy’s War – Paul Kennedy
In this blogpost, Paul Kennedy describes the Royal Navy’s key role in the 1939-1945 war at sea. He also calls attention to the beautiful…
Walter Mattner and the Murder of Jewish Infants – by Dr Alex J. Kay
Dr. Alex J. KaySenior Lecturer at the Chair of Military History / Cultural History of Violence, University of Potsdam and author of, Empire of…
Celebrating 50 years of the Wolfson History Prize
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the esteemed Wolfson History Prize, we are taking a trip down the memory lane to revisit all…
The MI9 competition: How to decipher a letter encrypted with MI9 code
Try your hand at deciphering this MI9-inspired coded letter for a chance to win Helen Fry’s books on intelligence history including her latest bestseller,…
The men behind MI9’s Q-gadgets: Christopher Clayton Hutton and Charles Fraser Smith
MI9’s ‘Q-gadgets’ have made it into the public imagination through the adventures of James Bond. But who was behind their invention? Helen Fry reveals…
An A-Z of the World – E. H. Gombrich on: the Second World War
As an aid to students, teachers and parents, we have constructed an A–Z of the World taken from E. H. Gombrich’s, A Little History…
Hitler at Home: A Conversation with Despina Stratigakos
Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations which he undertook during the mid-1930s. In a new…
The Battle of Britain: The Crisis
‘On 1 August Hitler issued Führer Directive No. 17 … The RAF must be eliminated as well as its ground installations and the aircraft industry.’…
Meet Ivan Maisky: The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
In part two of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, Gabriel Gorodetsky shares an excerpt that provides unique insight into events surrounding…
Meet Ivan Maisky: Soviet Ambassador to London, 1932-43
As the Soviet ambassador to London from 1932-1943, Ivan Maisky had a front-row seat at some of the most pivotal events of the interwar…
The Battle of Britain: Overture
‘Germany had every reason to be confident of victory in the ensuing battle.’ On 15 September 1940 Britain came under air attack from the German…
The End of the War: The Atom Bomb & Japan’s Capitulation
Characterised by wars, crises and disasters, the years between 1914 and 1945 are considered the ‘German chapter’ in the history of the West, as well…
Bastille Day: Philip Nord reflects on France’s past
‘What happened to France in 1940 was what happened to every power that went up against Germany in the first years of the war.’…
When Britain Saved the West: The Story of Dunkirk
It has now been 75 years since over 330,000 allied soldiers were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk – yet the evacuation story that…
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