The 80th anniversary of Hiroshima
On the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, historian Professor Richard...
Professor Richard Overy
Opinion: Unconditional Surrender 1945 – an 80th anniversary reflection upon VE and VJ Days
by Professor Richard Overy It is now 80 years since Germany and Japan surrendered to the Allied powers on the...
Historian releases new book analysing why humans are inevitably drawn to War
The question of why warfare has been an inescapable part of human history – and most likely its future –...
D-Day 80th anniversary: A Second Front at Last?
In the week of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, academics from across the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and...