Excavations along the disused Tranent–Cockenzie Waggonway have revealed a section of the historic rail route and uncovered new details about its use and construction that could potentially alter our understanding of railway innovations. The Tranent–Cockenzie Waggonway was the first railway…
REVIEW BY GRAHAM GOODLAD The 80th anniversary of the Dambusters raid in May received a certain amount of media attention and several new books on the event will have appeared by the end of this year. Yet Barnes Wallis, whose…
In an extract from a new book, John Medhurst traces the history of the submarine in warfare, from the earliest experiments to the First World War.
Which city boasts the largest Roman aqueduct still in use today, 19 centuries after it was built?
Neil Faulkner begins a short series on the history of airpower and its impact on the evolution of modern warfare.