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The Quiitinshill Rail Disaster.

Britain's worst ever rail crash where over 220 people were killed including over 200 soldiers heading to Liverpool to embark for Gallipoli.

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The story of the British expedition to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) to rescue British civilians being held captive by the Emperor Tewodros in his mountain fortress at Magdala.

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The story of the British Zouaves who fought in the 19th century Papal army.

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In early 871, Wessex stood on the brink. The Great Heathen Army—an alliance of Viking warriors—had already devastated Northumbria and East Anglia, and now turned its full fury toward the last unconquered Anglo-Saxon kingdom. After a Viking victory at the Battle of Reading, King Æthelred of Wessex and his younger brother, Prince Alfred—later known as Alfred the Great—rallied their forces for a decisive counterstrike.

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In the year 865, a new and terrifying force arrived on English shores—not a raiding party, but a full-scale invasion. The Great Heathen Army, a coalition of battle-hardened Viking war bands, swept across the land with ruthless efficiency.

Northumbria, divided by internal strife, fell quickly. East Anglia offered tribute—then resistance—and paid dearly for it.

These early campaigns would shatter Anglo-Saxon unity and mark the beginning of a long and brutal struggle for control of England.

This is the story of when those English Anglo Saxon kingdoms first came face-to-face with the Great Heathen Army..

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Major General Robert Rollo Gillespie was described the by historian of the British Army as "the bravest man to ever wear a redcoat".

But who was he and what did he do?

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In the year 793, the monks at Lindisfarne—one of the holiest sites in Anglo-Saxon England—were attacked by Viking raiders.

It heralded the start of growing Viking raids and then invasions that would bring Anglo Saxon England to its knees.

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In 1900, the British Empire launched what would become the final and most dramatic chapter in a decades-long struggle with the Ashanti people of West Africa—the War of the Golden Stool. Also known as the Fifth Anglo-Ashanti War, this conflict was sparked not by land or trade, but by a single, sacred object: the Golden Stool, the symbol of the Ashanti nation’s soul and unity.

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