The Spanish Civil War
Commonly referred to as “the dress rehearsal” for World War II, the Spanish Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in Spanish history. The result of deep political and social divisions More »
Matt Steadman
Fall of the USSR
On 26 December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The communist utopian dream had come painfully crashing down, freeing the world from the shackles of More »
The Battle of Thermopylae
In 480 BC, the pass of Thermopylae was the scene of one of the most famous last stands in military history. A Greek force outnumbered by over 100,000 men of More »
John R Fox
Stories of heroism and self-sacrifice permeate our memories of the Second World War. We think of the heroic efforts of the American Rangers scaling the cliffs of the Pointe du More »
Manchester Central Library Review
It is now nearly one year since the reopening of the Manchester Central Library to the public in March 2014, after three years of closure for renovation work. Perhaps the More »