July 1, 1916—the first day of the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest day in British military history. Over 57,000 soldiers were lost in mere hours, in a battle that was both a disaster and a ...
He described the defeat as the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history”. For the defeated Commonwealth soldiers who had battled to save it, 80,000 of them immediately ...
offering new insights into medieval life before the Norman Conquest Ella Jeffries Experts think the early 19th-century artwork could be an early draft of the British painter's "View of Dedham Vale ...
The 28-year-old British number one was nowhere near her best against 98th-ranked Marino and needed all of her competitive spirit to get over the line. "That was way too stressful for me ...