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History
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...
Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden
Eighty years after hundreds of allied soldiers parachuted from military aircraft...
A stolen skull, a severed statue and an Australian city...
For months, an unusual monument sat in an oak-lined square at the heart of Tasmania's...
'These women were innocent, and he was a monster': How...
In new film Firebrand, Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as Henry VIII and his sixth...
'I heard the sirens go and I was all wobbly at the knees':...
Britain went to war with Hitler's Germany on 3 September 1939. In History revisits...
A woman’s killing was unsolved for 44 years. A cigarette...
DNA evidence from a cigarette butt has led to an arrest in the 1980 killing of a...
Neolithic engineers built megalithic monument with stones...
Each of the 32 colossal stones that make up the Menga Dolmen, a 5,600-year-old megalithic...
Digs suggest leafy village once saw Viking horrors
The peaceful rural village of Repton in Derbyshire is thought to have witnessed...