History Magazine
Did Cavalry End With World War One?
The role of mounted cavalry seems to belong to another age. It brings to mind the Charge of the Light Brigade, the subject of the famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson;
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”
However the last British cavalry charge actually took place in 1942 in Burma…
Clifton Suspension Bridge
“The Ornament of Bristol and the Wonder of the Age” – Sir Abraham Elton, 1831.
Spanning the Avon Gorge in Bristol, the iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel…
The Windermere Children
Discover the true story of how in 1945, hundreds of traumatised children, liberated from German concentration camps, were taken to a tiny town in the Lake District to rebuild their lives…
