All news on the topic: History

A "vanishingly rare" copy of the Declaration of Independence has been found in London, dug up ‌in archives holding documents from the British capture of an American privateer ship in 1776, just as the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary.

Wolfgang Porsche, the Austrian-German automotive magnate, appears to have abandoned plans to build a private 500-metre tunnel for his cars through the Salzburg hills after a public uproar over the “tunnel for one”.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson have ruined their own lives - now they are in danger of destroying their daughters’ too.

On September 13, 1940, a German pilot was given his orders: destroy Buckingham Palace and kill the King and Queen. Should he succeed, it would be a military triumph for Adolf Hitler.

Uncovering the tomb of Thutmose II has been hailed as the most significant discovery since that of Tutankhamun in 1922.

The identity of Jack the Ripper has been a mystery for over 130 years - but one author believes he has unmasked the serial killer and even created an image of what he would have looked like

The ongoing war in Gaza has become yet another episode in the never-ending sequence of battles for the Holy Land.

For more than a century, it lay undisturbed in the National Archives: a single sheet of paper, headed The names of the Intelligencers, with the power to unveil a hidden network of secret Elizabethan spies.

Three bunkers were built underneath the 19th century villa - the last was never finished