Soldiers given burial ceremony at historic site

Demands have been made for the return of soldiers' skeletons to Fort William Henry in New York after it emerged today they were never laid to rest during a burial ceremony at the site nearly 20 years ago. The remains of unidentified soldiers who fought during the 1755 Indian....Read More...

The Ghosts of World War II's Past

When the Queen told Churchill: Stop making me sit through these dreadful films

Extraordinary story of abducted Texan girl

Zombie George Washington

When George Washington died in December 14, 1799, the nation mourned the loss of the war hero who led the United States to independence. But architect William Thornton believed America's first president was too important to leave the country so soon. He concocted a mad scheme to reanimate Washington's....Read More...

Strange Tale of Hitler's Jewish Psychic

Sketches by Queen Victoria revealed after 150 years

Lancastria: Britain's forgotten disaster

67th Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation

Yesterday, 27th January 2012, was the 67th Anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, and on this day it's memorial director and survivor of the camp, Kazimierz Smolen died at the age of 91. Here's his story ...Read More...

Skeleton of worlds oldest sea dog "Hatch" found on the Mary Rose goes on display at Crufts.

Victorian criminal records go online

New footage of WW1 shows war-torn battlefields

Final JFK White House recordings released

President John F Kennedy's presidential library has released the final 45 hours of his private recordings, representing the last months of Kennedy's life. The tapes include discussions on the growing conflict in Vietnam and plans for the 1964 election.

Kennedy recorded many of his White House....Read More...

Fourth Great Escape tunnel to be excavated

Bravest Soldier of WW1 gets Full Memorial 94 years later

The Rodean-educated beauty who saved the Empire from the Japanese

Vanished: Energy Vortex

On Friday's Brad Meltzer′s Decoded broadcast, the team investigated the so-called Alaskan Triangle, known as a Devil′s Graveyard of lost ships, airplanes and missing people. Since 1988, approximately 16,000 people have vanished in the Alaska Triangle. 4 out of every 1,000 Alaskans disappear annually without a....Read More...

Copernicus's remains reburied in Polish cathedral

Franklin expedition: Will we ever know what happened?

History of MI6 detailed in new book

100 Years Ago Today: Scott Reaches South Pole

The words conveyed an unmistakable pain, the deep hurt and disappointment of having battled for weeks in the most inhospitable place on Earth, only to be beaten to the ultimate goal.

Great God! wrote Robert Falcon Scott as he surveyed the area around the South Pole, this is....Read More...

Oh what a lovely war!

Ghost Ships at Normandy

Strange Tale of Hitler's Jewish Psychic

Sketches by Queen Victoria revealed after 150 years

They were intimate pictures she never wanted the public to see. So when Queen Victoria’s family portraits – sketched by herself – were leaked to a journalist, she sought an injunction. In one of the first cases of its kind, the furious monarch applied to the courts to stop....Read More...

'One of da Vinci's first ever sketches' found hidden inside a book

History of MI6 detailed in new book

MLK's FBI Files May Soon See Daylight

Sighting of Glenn Miller's aircraft shatters WW11 bomb theory

It has baffled historians and sparked numerous conspiracy theories. The disappearance of the legendary US swing musician, Glenn Miller, is one of the greatest wartime mysteries that has remained unsolved to this day. But now a previously unknown sighting of the musician's doomed plane has emerged 68 years on....Read More...

Juan Pujol Codename "Garbo" - The Double Agent who saved D-Day

U.K. apologizes to gay WWII codebreaker

Hitler’s Jaws of Death

The REAL War Horse

The tale of War Horse has gone from beloved children's book, to successful stage play to Hollywood movie directed by Steven Spielberg. But whereas this one equine hero's exploits are fictional those of Warrior who carried General Jack Seely of the Canadian cavalry throughout the horrors of World War....Read More...

Pearl Harbor Still Haunts One Survivor

Amazing aerial images taken by daring Allied pilots on secret missions during World War II

The unsung plane that REALLY won the Battle of Britain

Alexander Graham Bell speaks from the 1880s

Alexander Graham Bell foresaw many things, including that people could someday talk over a telephone. But the inventor certainly never could have anticipated that his audio-recording experiments in a Washington lab could be recovered 130 years later and played for a gathering of scientists, curators and journalists.

To....Read More...

70th anniversary of Dunkirk evacuation

Extraordinary 19th century photographs of explorer's travels unearthed

Hitler and the secret Satanic cult at the heart of Nazi Germany