All news on the topic: History

The identity of Jack the Ripper has been a mystery for over 130 years - but one author believes he has unmasked the serial killer and even created an image of what he would have looked like

The ongoing war in Gaza has become yet another episode in the never-ending sequence of battles for the Holy Land.

For more than a century, it lay undisturbed in the National Archives: a single sheet of paper, headed The names of the Intelligencers, with the power to unveil a hidden network of secret Elizabethan spies.

Three bunkers were built underneath the 19th century villa - the last was never finished