The Crusades

Using fresh evidence, Dr Thomas Asbridge examines the story of the Crusades; a tale of religious fanaticism and unspeakable brutality.

Find out about the Crusades, the battles that inspired Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code

How a team of intrepid inventors and a young Winston Churchill gave birth to the tank.

How does the world of Prince Edmund stack up against reality?

We don’t know our Hogwarts from our Windsor Castle.

What Winston Churchill called “the greatest American battle of the war” began…

Crowned on Christmas Day, 1066, our first Norman king changed the course of the nation.

Paranoid theory or ugly truth?

Here are some fascinating facts on the day which ended the carnage of the Great War.

To mark the 950th anniversary of Hastings.