2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (623+ words) Otley Courthouse has been named Yorkshire’s Everyday History Hero. The former courthouse won the title as part of the inaugural Everyday History Heroes awards, a national scheme celebrating the unsung stories of ordinary people and the heritage sites that bring…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (407+ words) For rights reasons, this programme is not available in your country. 14 October 1066 is a date that changed the history of England, Britain, and Europe. William, Duke of Normandy defeated the Saxon King of England, Harold Godwinson at the Battle of…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (386+ words) The Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Norman conquest of Anglo-Saxon England is about to go on display in Britain for the first time in more than 900 years. And people can discover how it all began for the Anglo-Saxons here in West…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (630+ words) Military Quote of the Day: “The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat; but they are no less difficult.” – Winston Churchill Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, has long been associated with World War II, for both…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (701+ words) One of the Netherlands’ most important early medieval archaeological finds has undergone a major restoration, bringing together pieces discovered over more than half a century. The Wijnaldum fibula, an elaborate gold and garnet brooch dating to around AD 600, is now…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (400+ words) 8 September 2026 8:28am Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum will return the remains of 39 people taken during Britain’s colonial era to the Naga community in northeast India, in another significant case of restitution as international pressure grows on Western institutions to return contested…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (45+ words) In Thucydides’ "The Peloponnesian War," Athens wrestles with whether force of arms or reputation for just rule is the true foundation of imperial power. Britain and later the U.S. would confront the same debate over how to combine moral authority…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (383+ words) The long-running dispute over the Parthenon Sculptures has taken a new turn after the British Museum agreed to lend two fragments of the ancient sculptures to an exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany, while Greece rejected a request to send nine fragments…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (548+ words) A researcher says it is "only right" there is now a memorial to the US servicemen who died at a Kent railway station in 1945. An exploding petrol tanker killed four American soldiers at Walmer station's goods shed on 12 September 1945. A…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (609+ words) Local tragedies are just as much the part of Ireland’s history and as worthy of commemoration as great national events, said Taoiseach Michéal Martin as he praised the people of Dromcollogher, Co Limerick, for remembering 48 people killed in a cinema…...