History Magazine
The Real Ragnar Lothbrok
The legendary Norse leader Ragnar Lothbrok has become familiar with modern audiences through the hit television show ‘Vikings’ – but there remain doubts over his true existence…
Vera Brittain and the Shell-Shocked Women of World War One
80,000 cases of shell shock – a forebear of modern Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – were reported by the British Army between 1914 and 1918. As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Armistice, Jobe Close discusses the largely overlooked female experience of shell shock…
Gertrude Fenn – Nurses in the Frontline
During World War One, along with a small group of similarly strong-minded British nurses, Gertrude Fenn became one of the first British women to care for Indian soldiers, not on the Western Front but in the searing desert heat of Mesopotamia…