New research on skeletons from Maiden Castle in Dorset casts doubt on theory of cemetery of Iron Age warriors killed by ...

As Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a status update on the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK, David Musgrove ...

Historians have discovered that centuries-old manuscript at Harvard Law School is not a mere copy, but is, in fact, an ...

German armed forces signed an unconditional surrender, bringing the Second World War in Europe to an end. To celebrate the ...

On 22 November 1963, President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. At the time of his death, Kennedy had served fewer than three years as president, but within US politics, he was a ...

“Hitler has only got one ball, / Goring has two but very small, / Himmler is rather sim’lar, / But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.” This cheeky wartime ditty mocking the masculinity of Adolf ...

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It’s 40 years since the wreck of the Titanic was discovered, yet the great liner continues to fascinate. As do stories of those who lost their lives back in 1912. Here, the focus is on the everyday ...

At 2.41am on 7 May 1945, at a schoolhouse near Reims in northern France, General Alfred Jodl, the German chief of staff, signed the unconditional surrender of all German land, sea and air forces ...