2+ week, 5+ day ago   (133+ words) Explore how major events between 24 and 30 August were captured on The Independent’s front pages Three members of the so-called Guinness Four arrive in court to be sentenced for their direct involvement in one of the largest corporate frauds in British…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1262+ words) Hours after Japanese war planes bombed Pearl Harbor and military installations across Oʻahu on December 7, 1941, martial law fell over the Hawaiian Islands. The military took control of the territory almost overnight. And the FBI, which had a list of suspects,…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (862+ words) Brits Michael and Christine Egan both died on the 103rd floor of the south tower on September 11, 2001. Now, 25 years on, Jonathan Egan has been working hard across the pond to make his Yorkshireman father proud The week the Twin Towers fell,…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (447+ words) A centuries-old letter of recommendation from the king of France for William Wallace is set to go on display across the UK. The “Wallace letter” was written in 1300 by King Philip IV of France to his agents in the court…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (481+ words) Shijin Jiang pulled the precision binocular headband magnifier over her eyes and hunched down within a few inches of the ancient text resting on a light board. Using a pair of hand tools, Shijin carefully inspected the sheet made from…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (804+ words) Standing beneath the spreading branches of a massive live oak, historian Garrison Marcoux tries to imagine what this scarred, struggling tree saw 245 years ago. Did one of the British soldiers encamped at this South Carolina crossroad near the end of…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (554+ words) When Wei Qing and his team drafted the application seeking UNESCO World Heritage status for Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, in 2023, they soon realised that the city’s ceramic legacy could not be told through kilns and…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (971+ words) In central London, near where tourists and business travelers board Eurostar trains to Paris, lies the burial place of Benjamin Franklin’s eldest son — a man whose life and family relationships were upended by his stance on the American Revolution. William…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (439+ words) Cat’s name likely hints at villa owner’s link to North Africa Unique mosaic engravings unearthed at the ruins of a Roman-era villa in Turkey could be memorialising its rich owner’s beloved pet dog “Ocean” and cat “Emerald”, archaeologists say. The…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (428+ words) whether the coins were meant as tokens or served as a mode of payment for the general populace....