Most fans cite The Empire Strikes Back, which turned 45 on May 21, 2025, as the greatest of the Star Wars films. But even ...

All week, over the back of the garden wall ... the Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar, the Boer War, the Battle of Britain and even the Falklands war, all despatched in a couple of minutes each.

In other words, the Falklands War was highly popular in an otherwise increasingly divided country. “The empire was gone ... “Inflation, strikes, unemployment; riots, bombings, scandals ...

It proved vital in retaking the Falklands from Argentina ... cover alongside the caption 'The Empire Strikes Back'. Returning to Portsmouth after the war ended, Hermes was given a hero's welcome ...

The cover of that month’s Newsweek magazine was a picture of Hermes beneath the headline “The Empire Strikes Back ... ship was heading away from the Falklands and the 200-mile exclusion ...

The disputed territories off the southern Patagonian coast had been part of the British Empire since 1833 ... It found it in claiming back the rocky, windswept Falklands, then mostly used for ...

A Short but Ugly War Nonetheless, the Falklands ... the back pages of history. Nonetheless, Britain continues to hold on not only to the islands but several other scraps of the old empire, almost ...

The last of the fishing trawlers requisitioned by the UK government to take part in the Falklands conflict is being scrapped. The Farnella, now known as the Empire ... back to World War One ...

The public, already suffering under the repressive regime which had killed thousands of political opponents and imprisoned many more in what became known as the dirty war, was becoming ...

The Empire Persia has been towed to a ship recycling ... which is beached in South Georgia and dates back to World War One While down at South Georgia, the Farnella was at one point moored ...