Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Chilvalry's essential function, Maurice Keen has written, is always to hold up an idealised image of armed conflict in defiance of the… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“Redmond Howard, a politically aware witness to the Rising and a critic of the rebels, wrote in its aftermath: 'There never was,… — Tim Pat Coogan Copy Share Image
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Of all the memorable phrases that have been minted and mobilised to describe modern British royalty, 'constitutional monarchy' is virtually the only… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
