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Revealed: Wife's last words of comfort to Captain Scott

18 March 2012 12:00 AM

As the centenary of his death approaches, the letter he held as he died is made public for the first time

Tsunami waves as high as the trees hitting the coast of Minamisoma in Fukushima prefecture on 11 March 2011.

Japan earthquake and tsunami: A year on

01 March 2012 12:04 PM

Next week, on 11 March, it will be exactly a year since one the most powerful earthquakes on record struck the north-east coast of Japan, triggering a massive tsunami wave up to 40 metres in height.

<b>Visitors to London from Sierra Leone, West Africa, 1957.
Photographer: Henry Grant</b>
<p>From 1948 people living in Commonwealth countries, such as Sierra Leone, had the right of entry and settlement in Britain where there was a labour shortage.</p>

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

A photograph taken by Captain Scott on his final expedition of Dr Edward Wilson sketching on Beardmore Glacier.

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

History: Enough of those sexy Tudors...

11 December 2011 12:00 AM

Books Of The Year

Intrepid: Captain Robert Falcon Scott, photographed eight months before he reached the South Pole 100 years ago in January

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

Discoveries suggest the veneration of the sun at Stonehenge was more important than thought

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

Sergeant George Tinsley Thompson's service number was 13/144. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in on 7 August 1915 aged 24.

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

Ruff with the smooth: Joely Richardson and Jamie Campbell Bower in 'Anonymous'

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

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