History

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How India's first Test tour to Australia almost didn’t happen

How India's first Test tour to Australia almost didn’t...

India's forthcoming cricket tour of Australia continues a historic rivalry that...

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Previously unseen photos of Prince William with his mother Diana visiting homeless released

Previously unseen photos of Prince William with his mother...

Prince William has opened up about how a powerful childhood experience with his...

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Lost Silk Road cities discovered in Uzbek mountains

Lost Silk Road cities discovered in Uzbek mountains

Archaeologists have found the remains of two medieval cities in the grassy mountains...

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The ingenious design of Morocco's 500-year-old 'banks'

The ingenious design of Morocco's 500-year-old 'banks'

These ingeniously designed, 500-year-old "banks" offer a glimpse into Morocco's...

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Columbus likely Spanish and Jewish, study suggests

Columbus likely Spanish and Jewish, study suggests

Famed explorer Christopher Columbus was likely Spanish and Jewish, according to...

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Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden

Paratroopers mark 80 years since Operation Market Garden

Eighty years after hundreds of allied soldiers parachuted from military aircraft...

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A stolen skull, a severed statue and an Australian city divided

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...

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'These women were innocent, and he was a monster': How history got Henry VIII wrong

'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...

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'I heard the sirens go and I was all wobbly at the knees': The life-changing day World War Two began

'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...

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A woman’s killing was unsolved for 44 years. A cigarette butt just led to an arrest, police say

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...

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Neolithic engineers built megalithic monument with stones that weighed as much as two jumbo jets

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...

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Digs suggest leafy village once saw Viking horrors

Digs suggest leafy village once saw Viking horrors

The peaceful rural village of Repton in Derbyshire is thought to have witnessed...

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Tim Walz’s 2006 campaign falsely described details about his arrest for DWI in 1995

Tim Walz’s 2006 campaign falsely described details about...

When Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz first ran for Congress in 2006,...

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AI brings hidden song back to life after 50 years

AI brings hidden song back to life after 50 years

It’s a little told story in Scotland’s music scene – the time a folk-rock band from...

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'It's time to retaliate in song' – Why NWA's provocative 80s rap became an anthem

'It's time to retaliate in song' – Why NWA's provocative...

NWA's landmark album Straight Outta Compton was released on 8 August 1988, bringing...

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