The British army has not always been pogonophobic. Indeed, soldiers helped to usher in the Victorian beard craze of the 1850s to 1880s.

The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration, awarded for valour in the face of the enemy. Since its introduction in 1856 there have been 1,354 recipients, with Col Grant being the 406th.

Victoria Cross hero Johnson Beharry has revealed his ancestors were victims of slavery – leading him to back efforts to honour the stories of slaves in the British Army who were given liberty.

By the 1890s, there were a number of Egyptians and Sudanese who were recruited into the British Army to play music for colonial regiments - so Jimmy Durham was not alone. But his story was unique.

The Victoria Cross is Great Britain’s highest military decoration, and it has been awarded to members of the armed forces soldier serving in the British army, as well as those in Commonwealth ...

Beckett, author of The British Army and the First World War, The Victorians at War, and numerous other works on British military history, takes on the factors affecting a Victorian era officer’s ...

In Someone Has Blundered - Calamities of the British Army in the Victorian Age, Judd dips into the 1838-42 invasion of Afghanistan, the Crimean war, the Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Zulu war and the ...