When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

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The Nazis loved the Bayeux Tapestry. They loved it so much that they tried (and failed) to steal it away to Germany at the ...

Medieval England was a dangerous place. Murder rates are estimated to have been between 20 to 50 times higher than today, ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

To be a samurai meant position and prestige, but it could all be taken away in an instant, plunging the once-proud warrior ...

How did one cat take out an entire species of bird in the 19th century? Dr Ross Barnett explains more about how human ...

The tale of a band of samurai who, after their master dies, take an oath to seek vengeance is an important story that offers ...

While her life may appear quite ordinary, Atgofion Ruth Mynachlog (Ruth Mynachlog’s Memories) serves as an essential record ...

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

The cannon were pumping shot into the hull of the vessel, sending lethal splinters of shrapnel through the air. A fire had broken out below the main deck and the crew was attempting to douse the ...