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George Pill who was sentenced to six weeks hard labour for stealing a donkey

Six weeks hard labour for donkey rustling: Victorian criminal records published online for first time

14 June 2012 01:57 PM

Victorian criminal records detailing everything from murder and arson to petty theft, drunkenness and donkey stealing have been published online for the first time today.

Alan Turing (standing) with colleagues working on Ferranti Mark 1 computer, 1951. Turing worked on the Ferranti when he was based at Manchester University with Dr Max Newman. It was to Newman that the young Turing had first shown his 1937 paper setting out the basis for a universal computer, On Computable Numbers.

Alan Turing and his machines - fresh insights into the enigma

14 June 2012 10:00 AM

A week ahead of the Science Museum's Alan Turing exhibition - 'Codebreaker' - Matilda Battersby speaks to his old assistant and his nephew to find out what drove one of Britain's greatest men and looks at the machines that helped make his name.

1953: London buses make their way down a decorated Oxford Street on June 3rd to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Crossrail: Celebrating 60 years in transport

30 May 2012 11:28 AM

Crossrail is taking advantage of the reflective mood that accompanies the Queen's Diamond Jubilee to celebrate the developments in transport in Britain during the 60 years of her reign.

Queen Victoria's diaries to go online

24 May 2012 02:50 PM

The Queen has launched a website documenting the life of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria in her own words - but revealed she had no plans to publish her own diaries.

Frederick Wilfred: London Photographs 1957-62

18 May 2012 01:03 PM

A selection of previously unseen images of London taken by unsung photographic talent Frederick Wilfred go on display at the Museum of London next month.

Charlie Duke: I see the Moon as a science station in the future

16 May 2012 02:00 PM

Apollo 16 astronaut, Charlie Duke, tells Donald MacInnes what it’s like to be one of only a dozen men to have walked on the Moon…

The poster boy of a new generation of on-screen historians, Dan Snow started in 2003 with a documentary on the battle of El Alamein co-presented with his journalist father, Peter Snow.

Young historians 'are damaging academia' in their bid for stardom

09 May 2012 12:00 AM

Research is being jazzed up too much in the dash for the bestseller lists, says Wolfson judge

Morbid Hitler had 'messiah complex'

04 May 2012 07:17 AM

A secret intelligence report - compiled just as Hitler embarked on the Final Solution - found the Nazi leader had a "messiah complex" and increasingly turned to "Jew-phobia" as defeat loomed.

Hitler postcard found at roadshow

02 May 2012 10:10 AM

Adolf Hitler was surprisingly keen to return to the front line after being injured in the First World War, a recently-discovered postcard suggests.

Conservators work in the dry berth under the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London, as they apply the finishing touches to a display of over 80 figureheads.

In pictures: Cutty Sark to reopen with 90% of original vessel intact

23 April 2012 01:19 PM

The famous Greenwich landmark the Cutty Sark will reopen to the public this week after the completion of a restoration project costing £50 million which followed the fire that nearly destroyed her five years ago.

A crew member on the MS Balmoral throws a wreath overboard during a memorial service, marking the 100th year anniversary of the Titanic disaster, in the North Atlantic Ocean

Prayers and wreaths for Titanic's dead

16 April 2012 12:00 AM

With prayers, a hymn and a moment of silence broken by a ship's deep whistle, passengers and crew on a memorial trip marked 100 years to the moment since the Titanic took 1,514 people to a watery grave.

Stop plundering of the Titanic, says expert who found wreck

16 April 2012 12:00 AM

New rules must be implemented to stop people from plundering the Titanic, according to Dr Robert Ballard, who found the ship nearly 27 years ago.

Secrets of the earliest Britons could be hidden in 5,000-year-old tomb

10 April 2012 12:00 AM

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a Neolithic portal dolmen, one of Western Europe's oldest ritual burial chambered monuments, in an isolated field in Wales.

May 1982 - Some of the 3000 troops leaving from Southampton aboard the QE2

Falklands War: A look back in 50 photographs

29 March 2012 10:00 AM

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War. One of the defining moments of former Conservative Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher's leadership, the hard feelings of Argentineans at the loss of islands they claim as theirs has not eased.

Errol Flynn as the dashing Robin Hood, right, battles it out with Basil Rathbone, the Sheriff of Nottingham, in the 1938 movie 'The Adventures of Robin Hood'

So, George, you really think that you're a Robin Hood Chancellor ...

22 March 2012 12:00 AM

Andy McSmith on the men who took from the rich – and the ones who didn't

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