The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...

ISBN: 1399099086 The series Unpublished Memoirs is a recent compilation of British memoirs from the Peninsular War. In this volume, the focus is on the 43rd Light Regiment of Wellington’s famous Light ...

Thirty six years ago today, during the 1969-98 Northern Ireland conflict, Belfast human rights lawyer Pat Finucane was shot ...

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England ...

A Tory former minister has claimed British Army members will ... “Soldiers will be leaving the Army, not being recruited, if we continue to allow the persecution of soldiers who served in Northern ...

The 1970s were statistically the worst times of the Troubles. There were 2,096 killings between 1970 and 1979, and 68 of ...

The Coroner's Court in Northern Ireland ruled on Thursday that the use of lethal force by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in 1992 was 'not justified' when it resulted in the killing of four ...

Known as 'Picti' by the Romans, meaning 'Painted Ones' in Latin, these northern tribes constituted the largest kingdom in Dark Age Scotland. They repelled the conquests of both Romans and Angles, ...

ON the BBC’s brilliant World War Two TV blockbuster SAS Rogue Heroes, Lt Col Paddy Mayne is ­portrayed as a foul-mouthed, ...

The families of the IRA men killed in Clonoe in February 1992 are "overwhelmed" with the coroner's verdict that the lethal ...

World War II is “fertile storytelling ground” for the new book “Hold Strong,” writes AP reviewer Rob Merrill about the work ...

‘L et Ireland go, with God’s blessing and a shake of the hand’, wrote Jerome K. Jerome in May 1920. This was a crucial year ...