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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

Battle of Flodden on 9th September 1513 by Sir Edward Burne-Jones A Day in History - 9th September 1513   At 4pm on the 9th of September 1513, a salvo of artillery marked the beginning of one of the most devastating battles in Scottish history - the Battle of Flodden. The clash effectively ended the Treaty of Perpetual Peace signed in 1502 between England and Scotland, an agreement that had tentatively drawn a close to over a century of intermittent warfare. Yet by 1513, ten

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen , a portrait by Jean-Jacques-Francois Le Barbier A Day in History - 26th August 1789...

German Waffen SS motorcyclists during Operation Barbarossa. @ImperialWarMuseum A Day in History - 22nd June 1941 In the early hours of...

The Sinking of the 'Bismarck' - Charles Edward Turner . Image Credit : National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London A Tuesday in History - 27th May 1941 Construction of the Bismarck  began in July 1936, as part of Germany’s ambitious Plan Z naval expansion. Completed in 1940, it was widely regarded as the most powerful warship in the world. Completed in 1940, the battleship was a formidable force: over 820 feet long, capable of 30 knots, with a range exceeding 11,000 miles and

A Day in History - 20th April 1290 At the forefront of the Arthurian Legend stands the image of King Arthur's Great Table, around which...

Adolf Hitler visiting the Special exhibition of war loot from Russia in the Zeughaus (old arsenal) in Berlin, where Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff made an attempt on Hitler's life. @El Pais A Day in History - 21st March 1943 Throughout his reign, Adolf Hitler survived numerous assassination attempts, many of which have been analysed by historians and popularised through media. One such is the 2008 film Valkyrie , starring Tom Cruise as Wehrmacht Colonel Claus von Stauffenbe

Coach Don Shula is carried off the field by his players after the 1972 Miami Dolphins completed their unbeaten season in Super Bowl VII. Photograph: Anonymous/AP A Day in History - 14 January 1973 On the 14th of January 1973, the Miami Dolphins held on to beat Washington, 14-7 in Super Bowl VII to cap the NFL's only perfect season. The Dolphins began as a struggling expansion team in the American Football League, enduring losing seasons from 1966 to 1969. The turning point ca

A Day in History – 28 November 1943 On the 28th of November 1943, the leaders of the 'Big Three' nations - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin - met for the first time in Tehran, Iran. This historic summit aimed to solidify military strategies for the Allies in the final stages of World War II and to begin shaping the post-war world order. As Churchill remarked, the meeting “probably represented the greatest concentration of worldly power that had ever

Death and the Soldier, oil on canvas, Hans Larwin, 1917 A Day in History - 11 November 1918 On 11th November 1918, the Armistice was signed between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany. Signed in Le Francport, it came into effect at 11 am CET, commonly referred to as ‘the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month’. This moment marked the end of hostilities on the Western Front during World War I, bringing four years of brutal warfare to a close

Painting of Benito Mussolini by Gerardo Dottori, 1933 The question of whether Mussolini prevented Italy from becoming communist state requires an exploration of his rise to power and the role of anti-communism in his fascist regime. Mussolini’s political ascent was marked by a fierce opposition to the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and other leftist movements, which he and his fascist ‘Blackshirts’ actively suppressed through violence, intimidation, and propaganda. Anti-commun

Police Attack Demonstrators in Sharpeville, March 21, 1960 Apartheid, meaning ‘apartness’ in Afrikaans, refers to the system of racial segregation enforced in South Africa between 1948 and the mid-1990s. Though formally introduced by the National Party in 1948, racial segregation had long been part of South Africa’s history. Apartheid laws imposed severe restrictions on the daily lives of non-white South Africans, from ‘pass laws’ that required them to carry permits to enter

German soldiers on the way to the Western Front in 1914. Messages on the car read: ‘Trip to Paris’, ‘See you later on the Boulevard’, ‘Off to battle’ and ‘My sword tip is itching’. ‘The Spirit of 1914’ is a term used to describe the supposed war fever that gripped Europe at the outbreak of the First World War. It suggests that the public, especially young men and boys, felt great excitement at the prospect of war and fighting for one’s country. The Nazi party later used the ‘