Britain is ‘on a war footing’ as a bloodbath is knocking on Europe’s door, the UK’s armed forces minister has said. The Army minister, Al Carns, said the country is close to a conflict and that the ...

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites. All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the ...

Winston Churchill was clear. “My dear friends,” he said on May 8th 1945, standing on a balcony in Whitehall to address the cheering crowds below. “This is your hour.” Victory, he said, did not belong ...

The S-class submarine’s legacy endures as a testament to undersea warfare’s evolution, and the brilliance of early 20th century British submarine designs. The British S-class submarine was one of the ...

The Cold War prompted many bizarre plans—one British idea involved using live chickens to maintain nuclear landmines. Back in the 1950s, the first decade of America’s titanic struggle against global ...