How the Royal Marines began
Well before the days of Commandos, Marines were not ‘Royal’, or even ‘marines’ …
Greg Allwood started out at BFBS as a web journalist, specialising in long-form and features articles focused on military history, military organisation and kit. Greg has also helped to produce special projects for events such as RAF 100 and Falklands 40. His interests in all things geeky now serve him well in the video archive, from where he occasionally produces videos based around military gear.
Well before the days of Commandos, Marines were not ‘Royal’, or even ‘marines’ …
How does today’s British Army assault rifle compare with its ancestor?
The remarkable true story of an Indian princess turned British WW2 SOE Agent
Touring the remains of First World War training trenches near Marlow.
Blunders in battle tactics can cost dearly as some military moments in history can attest
How the Marines got their iconic green berets
See World War Two through the eyes of Eugene Strickland, a ranker, officer, and later legend
As England take on Germany at Wembley, take a look back at the most famous football match of WW1.
How one village in Buckinghamshire remembers those who died in the First World War
How the Anglo-Nepalese War happened, and how the Nepalese became British Army soldiers
The Battle of Britain as seen from the other side
We take a look at the history of the territory.
How Rome once got decidedly further north than Hadrian’s Wall.
It was history’s biggest battle, and the beginning of the end for Hitler
A tour of some of the most well-known and widely-used Allied guns of the Second World War
A look at the 1917 battle through the eyes of historians