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History
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...
Tim Walz’s 2006 campaign falsely described details about...
When Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz first ran for Congress in 2006,...
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...
'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...
'Human stories are always about one thing – death': Why...
In a 1968 interview, the BBC spoke to author JRR Tolkien about his experiences during...
'Atomic bomb hell must never be repeated' say Japan's last...
It was early in the day, but already hot. As she wiped sweat from her brow, Chieko...
Police knew murder suspect intended to kill a black man
The police file on one of the UK's most notorious unsolved murders shows a prime...
Titanic mission to map wreck in greatest-ever detail
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'It's complete surrender' – Olympics hero Eric Liddell...
Scottish athlete Eric Liddell won the 400m gold at the Paris Olympics on 11 July...