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History
'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...
My Lady Jane: The brutal truth about the UK's infamous...
A short-lived teenage monarch in Tudor history has now inspired a fantastical TV...
The US city throwing an epic party for Prince
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Purple Rain, Prince's hometown is rolling...
Chinatown: The real-life California scandal that inspired...
Now 50 years old, Chinatown is one of the all-time great crime films – and that's...
Listening to unheard Wu-Tang Clan - the world's rarest...
Inside a delicately hand-carved silver box on display in an Australian museum lies...
'I went spectacularly broke': The blacklisted Hollywood...
On 22 June 1950, the notorious Red Channels pamphlet was published, implicating...
Historic writer's desk could be 'knackered' old fake
The desk of the writer Dr Samuel Johnson is to be returned to his former London...
Naked, alone and living on dog food – all for a TV show...
In 1998, a Japanese man was stripped naked and left alone in an almost-empty apartment...
Oldest Christian book sells for more than £3m
Christianity's oldest religious book, according to auction house Christie's, has...
Explorer Shackleton's last ship found on ocean floor
Wreck hunters have found the ship on which the famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton...
'It was the cleverest escape in the prison's 30 years':...
On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from Alcatraz, never to be seen again. The ultimate...