The Domesday Book - compiled in 1085-6 - is one of the few historical records whose name is familiar to most people in this country. It is our earliest public record, the foundation document of the ...

A collection of century old minute books have been unearthed at Llandudno RNLI as the lifeboat station searches for a new ...

William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in ...

A Camberwell author has published a paperback copy and three new chapters of Deep are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed ...

Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) ...

William Thompson deserves plaudits as one of many whose early service led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence ...

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook have a genuine interest in Irish history – when I got a chance to discuss Michael Collins and Henry Wilson with them I jumped at it ...

Exclusive: The education secretary has written for The Independent about the books that inspired her growing up and the joy ...

The UK's biggest myths debunked, from the legend of King Arthur to terrible food, lousy weather and a fanatical love of ...

At the heart of the Trinity College grounds, Ireland’s oldest and most prestigious university, lies the country’s oldest ...

Geri Horner is facing yet another setback after it was revealed that her book company has accumulated debts of £1 million. It ...

India was to be a predominantly Hindu country while Pakistan was to have a Muslim population. The partition of the British ...