'How we defeated the blackshirts in The Battle of Cable Street'
18 September 2011 12:00 AM
It is 75 years since Londoners banded together to block a march by Sir Oswald Mosley's fascists
Pigeon-guided missiles: Inventions that didn’t quite fly
18 September 2011 12:00 AM
Smell-O-Vision was meant to stink – and it did. Emily Dugan on 20 extraordinary ideas that didn't quite make it from prototype to production line
Lest we should ever be allowed to forget
13 September 2011 12:00 AM
Museums used to be a celebration of human achievement. Now they merely peddle misery. Tiffany Jenkins asks why
The great <i>IoS</i> history quiz
11 September 2011 12:00 AM
What was the War of Jenkins's Ear? Who took an arrow in the eye? Test your knowledge and win a prize
St. Petersburg marks anniversary of Leningrad siege
08 September 2011 04:36 PM
Air-raid warnings roared in Russia's second-largest city as residents commemorated the 70th anniversary of the start of a deadly, 29-month Nazi siege that reduced its population by nearly a million people.
Video: Aerial pictures of 9/11 aftermath
07 September 2011 11:14 AM
Police pilot Greg Semendinger's unique perspective of September 11th.
Turkey demands return of its 'Elgin marble'
06 September 2011 12:00 AM
V&A holds carved head removed from sarcophagus by Britain's consul-general in 1882
Ruins reveal how Roman gladiators won their spurs
06 September 2011 12:00 AM
Archaeologists using sophisticated radar equipment say they have located a remarkably well-preserved underground Roman gladiator school that will give them "sensational" new insights into the lives of the fighters 1,700 years ago.
A Day That Shook The World: Death of Mother Teresa
05 September 2011 12:00 AM
On 5 September 1997, Mother Teresa died of a heart attack in Calcutta at the age of 87.
Skeletons reveal sailors' grisly deaths
03 September 2011 12:00 AM
Botched amputations and scurvy are among the grim realities of naval life during the Napoleonic Wars revealed by a scientific examination of skeletons buried in three Royal Navy graveyards.
A Day That Shook The World: Germany invades Poland
01 September 2011 12:00 AM
On 1 September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, prompting Britain and France to declare war three days later.
A Day That Shook The World: Diana dies in Paris car crash
31 August 2011 12:00 AM
On 31 August 1997, the world was stunned when Diana Princess of Wales died in a horrific car crash in Paris in the small hours of the morning.
A Day That Shook The World: Hurricane Katrina lays waste to New Orleans
28 August 2011 12:02 AM
On 28 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the American city of New Orleans with the force of a nuclear explosion.
A Day That Shook The World: Lord Mountbatten assassinated by IRA
26 August 2011 12:04 AM
On 27 August 1979, the Queen's cousin Earl Mountbatten of Burma was killed by an IRA bomb while on holiday in Ireland.
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