PROF BRENDAN SIMMS looks at the eightieth anniversary of the evacuation at Dunkirk, comparing Britain’s situation in 1940 with 2020

PROF GERHARD L WEINBERG discusses the end of the Second World War in Europe

JAMES ROGERS interviews Lord Richards of Herstmonceux about Operation PALLISER, the British military intervention in Sierra Leone in 2000

DR SIMON WALDMAN looks back at the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980 and assesses subsequent relations between Britain and the Islamic Republic

DR CHRIS NEWTON assesses the Allied landing at Anzac Cove in Galipolli during the First World War on 25th April 1915