Picture preview: Portrait of London
15 February 2012 03:03 PM
Historic Photographs of London & Wandsworth
Picture preview: Last days of the Arctic
01 February 2012 11:22 AM
We might have been subject to Arctic winds lately, but as an exhibition by Icelandic photojournalist Ragnar Axelsson shows, the chill wilderness of that region could not be further from here.
Robert Fisk: Fragments of history rescued from oblivion
21 January 2012 12:00 AM
There are statements on the Bismarck, although contemporary reports got the story wrong
Scott's lost photos of Antarctica are bought for nation
17 January 2012 12:00 AM
The last photographs taken by Captain Robert Scott on his doomed journey to the South Pole have been bought for the nation in time for today's centenary of the expedition.
1,000-piece puzzle may unlock secrets to the Roman conquest of Britain
11 January 2012 12:00 AM
The helmet could have been captured as a war trophy or a diplomatic gift from a Roman officer
Everybody loves a winner, but we like a trier even more
11 December 2011 12:00 AM
Could the British still summon the stoicism of Captain Scott, asks Harry Mount
Secret history of Stonehenge revealed
26 November 2011 12:00 AM
Ancient site may have been place of worship 500 years before the first stone was erected
Previously unseen faces of the First World War
11 November 2011 11:15 AM
On Armistice Day the Imperial War Museum has made 100 portraits of people who served in the Great War available online
Cavemen painted spotted horses 'from life'
08 November 2011 12:00 AM
An iconic pair of white horses with black spots drawn on the walls of a cave about 25,000 years ago were not an abstract representation of equine life but an accurate depiction of reality, a study suggests.
Winter 1893: Greece is bankrupt. Summer 1896: It hosts the first modern Olympics
06 November 2011 12:00 AM
The same spirit that allowed a troubled nation to stage the first international sports festival can rescue it again.
One of the last Bomber Boys pays tribute to comrades
06 November 2011 12:00 AM
Ron Leverington, 91, is pleased that crews will be given a memorial at last
Horrible histories: Has revisionism gone too far?
31 October 2011 12:00 AM
Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare, Van Gogh didn't kill himself, George Harrison was the hero of The Beatles and Hemingway was a feminist. Revisionism has gone too far, says Geoffrey Macnab
Sound of Light Brigade to be heard again
31 October 2011 12:00 AM
The bugle heard by British cavalrymen as they thundered into Russian gunfire during the Charge of the Light Brigade is to be sounded once again.
English Heritage accused of rewriting history
28 October 2011 12:00 AM
A playwright has pulled out of a project to dramatise a castle's history claiming the quango that commissioned it wanted to censor references to Jews and Nazis in the Second World War for fear of "offending" the audience.
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