The clouds had gathered over Oradour-sur-Glane on the morning of 10 June 1944, and rain threatened. At la Grange de Boeil, a ...

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 ...

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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, ...

The invasion of Nazi-occupied France was codenamed Operation Overlord and took place on Tuesday 6 June 1944, having been delayed by 24 hours because of poor weather. Allied forces launched a combined ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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