Gordon Cummins was a seemingly ordinary RAF airman. But amid the darkness of blackout-era London he became one of the city’s ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Bletchley Park’s Research Historian, Dr David Kenyon, reveals how staff reacted to ...

The ancient Romans were pioneers in many aspects of medicine, but their treatments and surgeries were often painful, gruesome ...

Historian Simon Schama explains how close Britain came to complicity in the Holocaust, and what the bureaucracy of genocide ...

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In 1774, a British army officer named Robert Newburgh was put on trial in North America. As a captain in the 18th Regiment of Foot, he should have been a respected figure within the British military.

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.