MICHAEL WOODRUFF, one of the pioneer surgeons in transplantation, was undoubtedly a lateral thinker, a most unusual trait in a surgeon and one illustrated no better than by his outstanding work on dietetic deficiencies while a prisoner in the notorious Changi camp in Singapore during the Second World War….[more]

Encased in pinkish marble-like slabs supporting a balustrade, this dinosaur — or what's left of it — has for centuries been the most faithful presence in the Cathedral of St. Ambrose in Vigevano, a town about 20 miles from Milan.

Dating back to the French Revolution, this gourd is thought to contain the blood of Louis XVI, collected shortly after he was executed.

Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes following the discovery of a series of bombs from the Second World War in the French city centre of Rennes.

Senior officials were willing participants in the Nazi campaign, says report published yesterday

George was elector of Hanover and second Hanoverian king of Great Britain and Ireland. George was born in Hanover, Germany on 10 November 1683, the only son of the elector of Hanover. In 1705 he married Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and they had nine children…[more]

Cassius Marcellus Clay (October 19, 1810 – July 22, 1903), nicknamed “The Lion of White Hall”, was an emancipationist from Madison County, Kentucky, United States. He was a cousin of Henry Clay and Alabama governor Clement Comer Clay…[more]

Louis XIII of France was born in 1601 and died in 1643. Louis was the son of Henry IV and Marie de Medici. He was king from 1610 on, the year of his father’s assassination. His monarchy was dominated by the careers of the Duke de Luynes and Cardinal Richelieu. His monarchy saw an expansion…

A special court was appointed and in October 1660 those Regicides who were still alive and living in Britain were brought to trial. Ten were found guilty and were sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered. This included Thomas Harrison, John Jones, John Carew and Hugh Peters. Others executed included Adrian Scroope, Thomas Scot, Gregory…

It is ferocity and incompetence that have characterised Figes's own extraordinary war with academics, and dominated the headlines earlier this year. The stakes could not have been higher.

THE mystery of a badly corroded pocket watch, recovered from a wrecked warship hailed as Scotland's Mary Rose, has finally been solved – thanks to medical science and good old-fashioned detective work.

FORMER World War Two pilots and navigators are holding a signature session to mark 70 years of a Hatfield fighter plane this weekend.

Simon Schama is one of the UK's most brilliant historians and particularly excels at telling stories. His BBC series A History of Britain is arguably the most provocative and engaging televisual narrative of our island story ever produced. So it is no surprise that the government wants Schama to play a role in reshaping the school history curriculum.

As the most barbaric event of the twentieth century, the Nazis' mass extermination of Jews during World War II has served as the basis of countless books, plays, and films over the past sixty years.

A Russian archaeologist claims to have found the well-preserved ruins of a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization in Russia's North Caucasus.

A Russian archaeologist claims to have found the well-preserved ruins of a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization in Russia's North Caucasus.

But did it really happen?! Read more

For 70 years the Parisian apartment had been left uninhabited, under lock and key, the rent faithfully paid but no hint of what was inside.

A rare, first-person account of the ordeal of one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster will soon hit the auction block.

The appointment of historian and presenter Simon Schama as the Coalition Government's new history tsar has been condemned as insincere and insulting by a leading academic.

elangelo's er..Tracey?

The latest tests conducted by anthropologists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have proven that the bacteria Yersinia pestis was indeed the causative agent behind the "Black Death" that raged across Europe in the Middle Ages.

This seems really interesting…

The academic Simon Schama, who presents the BBC series A History of Britain, has agreed to advise ministers on an overhaul of the curriculum, the education secretary, Michael Gove, said today.

Gove said the move would ensure that no pupil leaves school without learning "narrative British history".

Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its reunification.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is leading the celebrations, hosted by the northern city of Bremen, where tens of thousands of people have turned out.

Germany is finally paying off World War I reparations, with the last 70 million euro (£60m) payment drawing the debt to a close.

The graph would be really useful to use!

The top photo is an actual photograph taken of President Obama leading several people to the East Room. However, the state-run Egyptian paper didn’t like that their president, Hosni Mubarak, was in the back of the group. They made the logical decision to show their president leading the way through the White House, which is clearly what happens when foreign dignitaries come to speak to Obama. Journalism at its finest.