Responsible for daring assignments like Operation Postmaster, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was given a mission to ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

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In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...

A supernaturally athletic ghost is alleged to have menaced the towns and cities of 19th-century England. Able to spew fire from its mouth and jump extraordinary distances, this phantom confounded the ...

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The public uptake was overwhelming. Despite warnings by postwar prime minister Clement Attlee that there were “bound to be early difficulties with staff, accommodation and so on”, 94 per cent of the ...

The bright lights of 1920s Hollywood may have blinded many of those flocking to Los Angeles, but cast a shadow over a dark underbelly. As new film Babylon explores the tumult of the 1920s, Lauren Good ...

What was the Battle of Cable Street? On Sunday 4 October 1936, the East End of London was convulsed by street fighting. Sir Oswald Mosley ’s British Union of Fascists had organised a march through the ...