A British artillery field gun from World War One. British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. As trenches were very good at defending soldiers from the ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916 ...

A British adventurer has set three female airship world records – 20 years after her father set the male record in the same airship. Alicia Hempleman-Adams, 35, from Bath, Somerset, achieved the ...