5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (441+ words) Podcaster, author and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray revisits one of the most extraordinary media deceptions of the 20th century in a new ten-part series from The History Podcast, The Hitler Diaries Scandal, available on BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 4 from Monday…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (471+ words) A fundraising target for a memorial to Channel Islands journalists who resisted Nazi occupation during World War Two has been reached, organisers have said. Historian Timothy Crook, who led the appeal, said the target of £1,000 was reached thanks to the…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (295+ words) In 1935, tens of thousands who had followed Mao Zedong on the Long March across China struggled to survive. They were fleeing Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces during the country's civil war. Zhong Ming was one of them. In 2014, a year before…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (209+ words) Heritage sites across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire will open their doors to visitors for free, as part of a festival to celebrate history and culture. The events, which have been organised as part of Heritage Open Days, will take place…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (608+ words) An old nuclear bunker in the suburbs of south Belfast is now protecting paperwork rather than people. Built in 1953 at the start of the Cold War, its windowless rooms are now home to more than a million government pictures and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (411+ words) As many as 11,000 workers in Rochester found themselves seeking refuge in a network of tunnels built during World War Two. This network, which remains under the town to this day, was built by the Short Brothers in 1939 and 1940. The aviation…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (469+ words) Tributes have been paid to World War Two veteran Norman Irwin, from Coleraine, who has died at the age of 107. The death of Norman Irwin was announced by his family on Thursday. Norman Irwin, who was born in 1918 and was…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1608+ words) Janett Bickley almost stayed home from school on the morning of 21 October 1966. The eight-year-old had recently recovered from pneumonia, but she was determined to go in for the last day before half-term. Shortly after taking her seat at Pantglas Junior…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (456+ words) Staff at a museum say they are "delighted" a fragment from a long-lost 2nd Century Roman mosaic of sea creatures that was unearthed 243 years ago has been loaned to them. The mosaic, which will be on display at Coronium Museum, in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (284+ words) The 116 black-and-white images had been sent to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington DC, to be considered for their archives. Among those pictured are Rudolf Höss, the camp commandant, and German doctor, Josef Mengele, known as the Angel…...