A-Level History

The story of nuclear power begins not in power plants or political debates, but in the laboratories of the late…

In the late 1920s, few men embodied wealth and modern ambition quite like Alfred Loewenstein. Born in Brussels in 1877,…

By the early seventeenth century, Bohemia sat on a political and religious fault line, primed for explosion. For decades, the…

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu stands as one of the most compassionate, charismatic and courageous moral leaders of the twentieth and…

More than four thousand years ago, long before the Roman Empire rose and about the same time as the pyramids…

The morning of 22 August 1485 was cool and grey over the fields south of Market Bosworth. Men woke stiff…

Some battles decide the fate of armies, others shape the destiny of nations. But occasionally, one changes the balance of…

Edward of Woodstock, more famously remembered as the Black Prince, was one of medieval Europe’s most formidable knights. He was…

Some battles define wars, and others redefine what war even is. Verdun was the latter. When the German army launched…

Alan Turing stands among the most influential thinkers in human history. His ideas laid the foundations for the digital age,…