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Archaeologists have hailed the discovery of an “extraordinary” well preserved bronze sword found at an ancient burial site in Bavaria.

Malaysia said on Tuesday authorities were questioning the crew of a Chinese vessel detained on suspicion of looting World War II shipwrecks.

Once a year, Britons celebrate the rejection of dour political extremism while honouring tradition and history by wearing a sprig of oak.

A German court convicted five men Tuesday of breaking into a Dresden museum and stealing 21 pieces of jewelry.

It’s easy to admire the pageantry and millennia of history on show without any resorting to mental gymnastics. Here’s what to watch out for.

American eighth graders’ test scores in history and civics have hit lows not seen in nearly two decades, according to the first Nation’s Report Card released after the coronavirus pandemic.

Archeologists in Livorno, Italy, discovered 175 silver Roman denarii coins, nearly all of which were in good condition.

We deny ourselves the experience of history’s richness when we insist that it conform to our contemporary sensibilities and desires.

Welsh Government advice says statues of “old white men” such as Trafalgar hero Admiral Nelson may need to be removed or even destroyed to create the “right historical narrative” in an increasingly multicultural society.

Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be a Roman shrine beneath a former graveyard in the grounds of a cathedral in central England.

LONDON (AP) — Britain has reasserted its sovereignty over the Falkland Islands after Argentina pulled out of a cooperation agreement and demanded new talks over the South Atlantic territory that sparked a 1982 war between the two countries.

A couple in Arizona got the surprise of their life when they discovered 100 years of another family’s memories.

Dozens of far-left organizations are demanding the resignation of College Board CEO David Coleman following the organization modifying its AP African American Studies course after the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) rejected it as is, due to the inclusion of woke topics and blatantly leftist talking points.

England’s Northumbria Police force has flagged a statue of two Vikings in Jarrow, England, for possible “associations with far-Right symbolism”.

BERLIN (AP) – Hans Modrow, who served as East Germany’s last communist leader during a turbulent tenure that ended in the country’s first and only free election, has died. He was 95.

Anne Holton, wife of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), denounced the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as “fundamental in enshrining slavery.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) administration is seeing bipartisan support after the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) rejected an AP (Advanced Placement) African American Studies course due to its woke content.

(AFP) – President Emmanuel Macron has said he will not “ask forgiveness” from Algeria for French colonisation but hopes to continue working towards reconciliation with his counterpart Abdelmajid Tebboune.

The Church of England announced that it has committed £100 million in a reparations-style package for its role in the historical slave trade.

The Black Lives Matter-inspired culture war on Britain’s history is continuing as a school named for English naval hero Sir Francis Drake is set to be rebranded after bosses decided he “sat at odds with the values of our school.”

December 25th 2022 will see the first Christmas broadcast to the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth by King Charles III, and the first by a monarch other than the late Queen Elizabeth II since 1951.

A theatre group has vowed to make their production of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus more obviously racist in the hopes of highlighting the Bard’s alleged bigotry.

A Member of Parliament (MP) for Britain’s governing Conservative (Tory) Party plans to put forward a bill that will allow Parliament to strip Prince Harry and wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, of their titles, in response to their politically-charged Netflix series. 

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle featured a professor who said the Queen “wanted to be a figurehead for white supremacy” after her death in their tell-all Netflix docu-series. 

During the Battle of Pearl Harbor, Doris “Dorie” Miller became the first black man to win the Navy Cross for his heroism in battle.

The idea that the United Kingdom was founded on the back of “systemic racism” is reportedly held by nearly half of young people, polling has reportedly found.

The main war memorial in Edinburgh, Scotland, was set on fire within 24 hours of its having been the centrepiece of the nation’s Remembrance Sunday commemorations for the fallen.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government has confirmed plans to replace the Royal Yacht Britannia, decommissioned by Tony Blair in 1997, as part of his return the ‘managed decline’ policies which have characterised the Conservative Party through most of their time in office since 2010.

Tens of millions of pounds earmarked for universities in Britain have reportedly been spent on far-left projects including examining the allegedly racist history of a collection of dried plants and increasing LGBTQ+ “representation” in Medieval History, a report has claimed.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has claimed that bigwigs within the European Union will “end up” facing the same fate as Soviet dictators of old.

The Canadian government has invested around $4 million to partner with a local government to buy back beachfront land and prevent a building development at Juno, the D-Day landing beach Canadian soldiers stormed in 1944.

Germany told Poland there will be no more World War II reparations because Berlin considers the matter is closed.

Jerzy Urban, a spokesman for Poland’s communist-era government who masterminded state propaganda and censorship has died.

Poland requested the payment of some $1.3 trillion in reparations for the damage incurred by occupying Nazi Germans during World War II.

A London park named for four-time prime minister William Gladstone, one of the most famous premiers of the Victoria era, will be transformed into a “slavery garden” at the behest of the Labour-run local government.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while some conservatives do want to whitewash the past, “plenty of liberals also want to abuse history to control the present,” through presentism and acting as through “the