Living the Poor Life: untold history of the poor now online September 04, 2010
Source: The National Archives
Thousands of pages of Victorian workhouse and poor law records have been made available online today following the co... [MORE]
How the Girl Guides knitted, nursed and dug for victory September 02, 2010
Source: BBC
Knitting, baking and singing hymns. That's what the Girl Guides is all about, right? Well, not according to a new book which tells the ... [MORE]
Hitler 'was not a brave soldier' claims new book September 02, 2010
Source: bbc.co.uk
Adolf Hitler's image as a brave soldier was a myth, according to a University of Aberdeen historian.
Dr Thomas Weber's book Hitl... [MORE]
150 Auschwitz surgical instruments found in nearby Polish home September 01, 2010
Source: telegraph.co.uk
More than 150 surgical instruments from the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp have been found in a nearby house in Oswiecim,... [MORE]
Nazi femme fatale 'blamed by MI5 for WWII defeat' August 31, 2010
Source: bbc.co.uk/news
A glamorous Russian ballerina who worked as a Nazi spy is the subject of an MI5 file revealed for the first time this week.
... [MORE]
Last surviving player from first World Cup final dies August 31, 2010
Source: bbc.co.uk/news
The last surviving player from the first World Cup final, Francisco Varallo, has died in Argentina at the age of 100 .
Vara... [MORE]
German WWII plan to invade Britain revealed in MI5 file August 30, 2010
Source: bbc.co.uk/news
German shock troops would have landed at Dover, dressed in British uniforms, if the Luftwaffe had won the Battle of Britain,... [MORE]
'He bit on a cyanide capsule and dropped dead': The final moments of Heinrich Himmler August 08, 2010
From The Daily Mail (UK):
The final moments of Nazi Heinrich Himmler can be revealed 65 years after his suicide following the discovery of an old s... [MORE]
Emerging from the shadow of Auschwitz July 31, 2010
Source: BBC News Online, suggested by Mike Hyman
The small Polish town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz in German) has long felt that it suffered from associ... [MORE]
What did they do with the drunken sailor? July 31, 2010
Source: BBC News Online.
For hundreds of years, Royal Navy seamen queued up in galleys from the poles to the tropics to receive their regulation lu... [MORE]
Was Marden Henge the builder's yard for Stonehenge? July 29, 2010
Source: The Guardian, submitted by Mike Hyman.
Stone tools, flakes and the remains of a final feast at the site in Wiltshire hint that the huge sar... [MORE]
Winston Churchill archive to go online July 29, 2010
Source: The Guardian, submitted by Mike Hyman
Churchill Archive Trust agrees deal to allow public to view more than 1m items, from school reports t... [MORE]
Siegfried Sassoon archive goes on show at Cambridge July 28, 2010
Source: The Guardian
Pocket book in which Siegfried Sassoon denounced the Western Front carnage in A Soldier's Declaration to be exhibited with man... [MORE]
Archaeologists unearth Neolithic henge at Stonehenge July 22, 2010
Source: BBC News. Contributed by Kaye Jones.
Archaeologists have discovered a second henge at Stonehenge, described as the most exciting find there... [MORE]
David Cameron criticised over World War II history slip July 22, 2010
Source: BBC News. Contributed by Kaye Jones.
David Cameron has been criticised after mistakenly saying the UK was the "junior partner" in the allie... [MORE]
Who was the man behind the diaries, Samuel Pepys? July 22, 2010
Source: BBC News Online, contributed by Mike Hyman, Collca.
It is 350 years since one of the UK's most famous diarists put pen to paper. But what w... [MORE]
Former inmate recalls daring escape from Auschwitz July 21, 2010
Source: SF Gate (San Francisco Chronicle)
With every step toward the gate, Jerzy Bielecki was certain he would be shot.
The day was July 21, 1944.... [MORE]
DNA check on remains from grave of Romania's Ceausescu July 21, 2010
Source: bbc.co.uk
Scientists in Romania have exhumed what are thought to be the remains of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife in order ... [MORE]
Did an Underground Nazi Factory Cause Disaster? July 20, 2010
Source: Spiegel Online
One year ago, a mudslide on the shores of a lake in the German town of Nachterstedt killed three people. Now, some speculate... [MORE]
Grave of Hitler's would-be assassin discovered July 20, 2010
The grave of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the man who failed to kill Adolf Hitler, may have been discovered in a wood in Germany.
Stauffen... [MORE]
Himmler's efforts to turn sand into gold July 20, 2010
SS chief Heinrich Himmler set up a secret unit in the Dachau concentration camp after becoming convinced he could turn sand into gold, a book has ... [MORE]
'Biggest canal ever built by Romans' discovered July 19, 2010
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Scholars discovered the 100-yard-wide (90-metre-wide) canal at Portus, the ancient maritime port through which goods from ... [MORE]
The Battle of Fromelles - the forgotten battle of World War I July 19, 2010
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
The Battle of Fromelles remained a largely-forgotten episode of World War I for decades, mainly remembered by families of th... [MORE]
Archaeologists uncover oldest document ever found in Jerusalem July 19, 2010
Source: The Hindu
A tiny clay fragment dating back to the 14th century BC, discovered during excavations in Jerusalem, contains the oldest written ... [MORE]
18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site July 16, 2010
Source: The New York Times: In the middle of tomorrow, a great ribbed ghost has emerged from a distant yesterday.
On Tuesday morning, workers excav... [MORE]
Medici Family Cold Case Finally Solved July 16, 2010
Source: Discovery News. Malaria, not murder, was responsible for the deaths of two members of the clan that dominated the Florentine Renaissance.
S... [MORE]
Victorian England: a nation of coffee drinkers July 16, 2010
Source: Daily Telegraph. Victorian Britons were a population of coffee drinkers, paying few taxes, who didn't divorce. This is the fascinating, if p... [MORE]
'I Will Survive' at Auschwitz July 14, 2010
An artist has provoked fury by filming her holocaust survivor dad dancing and singing "I Will Survive" during a trip to Auschwitz.
Jane Korma... [MORE]
Historians locate King Arthur's Round Table July 13, 2010
Historians claim to have finally located the site of King Arthur’s Round Table – and believe it could have seated 1,000 people.
Resea... [MORE]
New rules on post-traumatic stress benefits aid US vets July 12, 2010
The US government has announced new rules that will make it easier for US veterans to receive federal benefits for post traumatic stress disorder.
... [MORE]
Spain set to receive Cuban dissidents on Tuesday July 12, 2010
The first of a group of dissidents freed by the Cuban government will arrive in Madrid on two scheduled flights on Tuesday, Spain says.
Eleven diss... [MORE]
Service marks 70th anniversary of Battle of Britain July 11, 2010
Veterans from RAF Fighter Command are taking part in a ceremony to mark 70 years since the Battle of Britain.
From 10 July 1940, the Luftwaffe bega... [MORE]
Vienna is still a favourite playground for spies July 10, 2010
Speculation is mounting that the Austrian capital, Vienna, might be the venue for a cloak and dagger prisoner exchange straight out of a Cold War th... [MORE]
Huge Roman coins find for hobbyist July 10, 2010
One of the largest ever finds of Roman coins in Britain has been made by a man using a metal detector.
The hoard of more than 52,000 coins dating f... [MORE]
British soldier awarded Conspicuous Gallantry Cross July 10, 2010
A British soldier who dashed across enemy fire twice to pull wounded comrades out of danger was today recognised for his bravery.
Lance Corporal Ky... [MORE]
The Dunera Boys - 70 years on after notorious voyage July 10, 2010
As the storm clouds of war gathered in the late 1930s, thousands of German refugees - either Jewish or politically opposed to the Nazis - fled to Br... [MORE]
Prince Charles will attend WWI soldiers' reburial July 09, 2010
Prince Charles will attend the reburial of the last of the World War I soldiers recovered from communal graves in France, it has been announced.
... [MORE]
Survivor of Lancastria sinking calls for remembrance July 09, 2010
A Worcestershire woman who was the youngest survivor of Britain's worst maritime disaster has called for it to be remembered on its 70th anniversary... [MORE]
