A-Level History

Murder

The Assassination of James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield was born on 19 November 1831 in Orange Township, Ohio, into circumstances that gave little hint he…

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Warfare

The Battle of Trafalgar

By 1805, Europe had already been reshaped by more than a decade of war born out of the French Revolution.…

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Biographies

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 2 July 1908, into a Black family that valued education, discipline and…

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Warfare

The Battle of Yorktown

By 1781, the American War of Independence had dragged on for six exhausting years. The early drama of Lexington, Concord,…

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Warfare

The Battle of Britain

By the summer of 1940, Britain faced one of the darkest moments in its history. In less than a year,…

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Murder

The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem on 1 March 1922, during the period of British rule in Palestine, and would…

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Warfare

The Fall of Tenochtitlan

Long before Hernán Cortés marched toward the Valley of Mexico, Tenochtitlan already stood as one of the most remarkable cities…

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Warfare

The Siege of Orléans

By the late 1420s, France was teetering on the edge of collapse. What had begun nearly a century earlier as…

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Warfare

The Battle of Actium

By the final decades of the first century BC, the Roman Republic had already endured years of violence, political intrigue,…

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History

The History of Robots

Long before circuits, code and silicon chips, human beings were already imagining artificial life. The idea of creating something that…

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