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History
'It stirred the people to breathless wonder and scalding...
The building of the Sydney Opera House began on 2 March 1959. But when BBC Tonight...
The illegal church at the heart of US history
In the heart of what was once Britain's largest colony in the New World, a "secret"...
A Thousand Blows: How a historic women-only gang menaced...
The all-female Forty Elephants lived by their own shoplifting and pickpocketing...
'It was an escape into excellence': How music saved the...
The Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops...
'My mother sacrificed herself for me': Escape from the...
As the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau's liberation approaches, Simon Gronowski...
Auschwitz survivor: 'You worked until you could work no...
Albrecht Weinberg was a teenager when the Nazis first sent him to do forced labour...
India's pioneering female anthropologist who challenged...
Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those around her.
Twenty years on: 'My boat was metres from the shore when...
When the earthquake struck at 06:30 (01:00 GMT), I was on a ferry, headed towards...
Santa Tracker: The slip-up that started a 70-year-old festive...
In early December 1955, the phone rang at an air base in Colorado Springs. The officers...
'As darkness fell, blazing hangars lit up the sky': How...
In December 1950, a BBC cameraman captured the fall of Pyongyang, a defining moment...
How India's first Test tour to Australia almost didn’t...
India's forthcoming cricket tour of Australia continues a historic rivalry that...
Previously unseen photos of Prince William with his mother...
Prince William has opened up about how a powerful childhood experience with his...
Lost Silk Road cities discovered in Uzbek mountains
Archaeologists have found the remains of two medieval cities in the grassy mountains...
The ingenious design of Morocco's 500-year-old 'banks'
These ingeniously designed, 500-year-old "banks" offer a glimpse into Morocco's...
Columbus likely Spanish and Jewish, study suggests
Famed explorer Christopher Columbus was likely Spanish and Jewish, according to...