Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1880 A Day in History - 22nd January 1879 On the afternoon of the 22nd January 1879, a skeleton British garrison of fewer than 150 soldiers stood at Rorke’s Drift, an unremarkable mission station on the edge of Zululand. Within hours, they would be fighting for their lives. Just twelve miles away, an entire British column had been destroyed at Isandlwana - remembered by the Zulu as The Day of the Dead Moon , when a

Casablanca Conference 1943, present are (left to right): French General Henri H. Giraud; US President Franklin D. Roosevelt; French General Charles de Gaulle; British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. A Day in History - 14th January 1943 Between the 14th and 24th of January 1943, Allied leaders met at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, for one of the most significant strategic conferences of the Second World War. The meeting brought together U.S. President Franklin D. Roo

William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw, circa 1942. Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images A Day in History - 18th September 1939 On the 18th September 1939, just weeks after Great Britain entered the Second World War, a strange, nasal voice first crackled over the British airwaves: ‘Germany Calling, Germany Calling.’ It belonged to the American-born William Joyce, soon notorious as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’, whose propaganda broadcasts from Nazi Germany would both unsettle and entertain milli