Category: Military history AudioWriter of the month: Stalingrad and Berlin – researching the reality of warMonday 25 March 2013Antony Beevor discusses his experience of researching the reality of war. Antony Beevor is...AudioAn Embarrassing Question: Opium, Britain and China 1856-1860Friday 22 March 2013The war between Britain and China from 1856 to 1860 became widely known as...AudioThe Final Whistle: the Great War in 15 players – a London rugby club at war 1914-1918Friday 8 March 2013A missing war memorial first inspired a quest to discover club members who fell...AudioTracing battalions or regiments of the British Army during the Great WarFriday 1 February 2013This podcast gives you an introduction to the various records at The National Archives...VideoDig For VictoryTuesday 15 January 2013An appeal to everyone during wartime to ‘Dig for victory’ by cultivating vegetables for...AudioWriter of the month: Hunting for spies in The National ArchivesTuesday 15 January 2013In our first Writer of the Month talk, Times journalist Ben Macintyre discusses his...AudioA Brilliant Little Operation: The full story of how the Cockleshell Heroes mounted the greatest raid of WW2Friday 11 January 2013This talk was given by Lord Ashdown, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats...AudioGeography, art and the sinking of the Mary RoseFriday 4 January 2013King Henry VIII watched as the Mary Rose, pride of his Navy, suddenly capsized...AudioMarjorie’s War: four families and the Great WarFriday 16 November 2012This podcast is based on the recently published book which tells the story of...Military historyThe Battle of the Somme: fallen comradesThursday 16 August 2012The clip starts with a title and sequence showing British tommies rescuing a fallen...VideoThe Battle of the Somme: ‘Plum Pudding’ mortar bombsThursday 16 August 2012This sequence opens with a title commenting on the supply operation to make the...VideoThe Battle of the Somme: Battle PoliceThursday 16 August 2012The film clip starts with Tommies making their way across No Man’s Land and... « 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 19 »