Over the past few weeks, Norway’s World Cup squad has captured the imagination of football fans around the globe with its ...

David Musgrove has spent nearly two decades following the extraordinary campaign to bring the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain. But ...

Filmmaker Jon Erwin’s frontier drama Young Washington stars London-born William Franklyn-Miller as the future first President of the United States. But when the movie opens in July 1755, the figure of ...

What was the Falklands War? The Falklands War saw Britain and Argentina battle for control of the Falkland Islands – a tiny archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean made up of two main islands (dubbed ...

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On 30 April 1945, as Allied forces closed in on Berlin from both east and west, Adolf Hitler went into his private study in the underground Führerbunker and shot himself in the right temple. An all-or ...

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1966: The World Cup that changed a nation. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The answer here is still hotly disputed. It was the Venerable Bede (who died in 735), writing 250 years after the events he describes, who first claimed that Roman Britain fell to invasion by Angles, ...

Historians and archaeologists have long speculated on the reasons for crossroads burials. Perhaps it was the nearest resting place the deceased would get to any sort of religious symbol. It may also ...