On April 11, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Army troops liberated the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar, ...

Sir Michael Morpurgo will reveal a story of canine courage at Goodwoof on Saturday, May 17 in a happy return to a place of huge personal significance for him.

In 1471, during a series of civil wars for control of the English throne, known as the Wars of the Roses, King Edward IV of England seized London from Henry ...

Napoleon Bonaparte, France’s famed military commander and emperor, formally gave up his throne. Under the Treaty of ...

Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), will forever be etched into the annals of history as the ...

Two months before Napoleon's historic defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused heavy rains ...

Wellington Street was named for the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. Wellington Street ...

Historians fear a £1.6 million Belgian farm which was the site of a battle ‘that made defeating Napoleon at Waterloo possible’ could be turned into a block of flats. Gemioncourt Farm is a key ...

EXCLUSIVE: Historians fear developers could turn the site into modern flats erasing the legacy of a battle that shaped the history of Britain and Europe.

Movies and TV shows have been making drama out of historical events since the dawn of the business. Some of the best movies ...

Part of Canada's largest engineering school, the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering department at the University of Waterloo is home to 2,400 undergraduates, 400 graduate students, faculty and ...

Barely a day passes without yet another news story about robberies being ignored by police for 'lack of evidence'. Translation: they simply can't be bothered.