History

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'It was an escape into excellence': How music saved the life of a teenage Jewish cellist in Auschwitz

'It was an escape into excellence': How music saved the...

The Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops...

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'My mother sacrificed herself for me': Escape from the train of death

'My mother sacrificed herself for me': Escape from the...

As the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau's liberation approaches, Simon Gronowski...

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Auschwitz survivor: 'You worked until you could work no more - then you went to the chimney'

Auschwitz survivor: 'You worked until you could work no...

Albrecht Weinberg was a teenager when the Nazis first sent him to do forced labour...

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India's pioneering female anthropologist who challenged Nazi race theories

India's pioneering female anthropologist who challenged...

Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those around her.

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Twenty years on: 'My boat was metres from the shore when the tsunami hit'

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...

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Santa Tracker: The slip-up that started a 70-year-old festive tradition

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...

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'As darkness fell, blazing hangars lit up the sky': How the fall of Pyongyang brought the world to the brink of crisis

'As darkness fell, blazing hangars lit up the sky': How...

In December 1950, a BBC cameraman captured the fall of Pyongyang, a defining moment...

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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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