History Magazine
Prehistoric Penwith
Penwith is where Britain ends. It is the final strip of land before the sea, stretching out a small finger into the ocean as though reaching forlornly for the sunset. Britain’s ancient inhabitants knew this just as we do, for Penwith is teeming with prehistoric sites that spark the imagination…
The Chindits: Unique Burma Jungle Force
One of the most controversial, eccentric individuals of the Second World War was Major-General Orde Wingate, leader of the Chindits during the Burma Campaign…
The English Renaissance
William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Inigo Jones, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Tallis. The Elizabethan era is seen as the height of the English Renaissance, the dominant art forms of which were literature, theatre and music…
Old Oswestry Iron Age Hillfort
One of the most impressive and best-preserved Iron Age hillforts in Britain, this ancient sentinel still commands the Welsh borderlands some 2,500 years after it was built
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…