Acta Militaria

The trained bands were, basically, the militia. Although “trained” seems to have sometimes been a slight exaggeration, they were organised ...

After the Roman legions left England the Romano-British were left to their own devices, which would have been fine except for one thing, the...

By July 1643 England was 11 months into an increasingly bitter civil war between the supporters of King Charles I (the Royalists), and Parli...

In the previous blog I describe an interview with Robert Whiting, a veteren of the 3rd (East Kent) Regiment, the "Buffs". Talking ...

It's 1940 and from your home in Australia you hear daily news reports of bombs landing on your native Kent, with invasion threatened to ...

If you are ever in want of a read with a mid-Victorian flavour, you could do worse than A Soldier of Three Queens by Robert Henderson, publi...

Given the British military tradition, and love of beer, it is rather surprising that there is only one pub in the British Isles named af...

The following is based on a very readable article by Henry Lewin Cannon written in 1912, "The Battle of Sandwich and Eustace the Monk...