Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales faced a deadly assassination attempt – at a Duran Duran concert. Henry Hemming explains how one man prevented it, and in doing so, changed ...
In June 1913, suffragette Emily Davison was fatally injured after stepping in front of the king's horse during the Epsom ...
The second offering in Hollywood star Jada Pinkett Smith’s anthology drama-doc series focuses on Cleopatra, who ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom from 51-30BC. It’s a portrait of a royal whose beauty, in ...
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The first of the week’s D-Day documentaries tells the story of the landings at Normandy through archive footage and audio. It charts both the build-up to the invasion and, with accounts from veterans, ...
Under the terms of the deal that Henrietta arranged at Dover, her rich brother-in-law, Louis XIV, would pay Charles II, her brother, £230,000 a year, while Charles would send 60 ships and 4,000 ...
Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel – an achievement in itself, and one made all the more impressive by the fact that she swam it faster than any of the five men who had ...
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In the years immediately following the end of the Second World War, a spate of observations of mysterious airborne objects began to accumulate around the globe. Similar Unidentified Flying Objects ...
In the early 1980s, Oleg Gordievsky was arguably the most important spy in the world. This was not primarily because of his work for what was ostensibly his employer, the KGB, but because he was a ...
During the late 16th century, a cultural phenomenon emerged among Europe’s elite: the Grand Tour. Essentially a long excursion around the continent’s ancient locations, the Grand Tour would endure for ...
In modern perceptions, the term ‘Neanderthal’ is synonymous with thoughtlessness and brutishness. This is a dated idea – crafted over decades to create an image of these supposedly club-wielding ...
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