Jon Bauckham News Today

In the first episode of our new Second World War series, Saul David tells the story of 6 June 1944 from the perspective of the airborne troops who struck the first blow

Professor Richard Toye delves into the life and career of Britain's last Liberal prime minister

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Kassia St Clair shares the story behind the 1907 Peking to Paris automobile race: a test of endurance that stretched its competitors to their very limits

John Potter charts the evolution of songs and songwriting over the past thousand years, covering medieval troubadours, English folk music and more

Andrew Lycett shares how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created his most famous character, and what the stories reveal about the author's own life and times

Alwyn Turner takes us on a whistle-stop tour of 1950s Britain: a time of rationing and postwar austerity, but also an era in which exciting new possibilities were blossoming

The showdown at Waterloo was delayed due to rain, and the young Napoleon Bonaparte showed little promise. Read surprising and forgotten facts about the Napoleonic Wars here

Tom Young tells us what the work of amateur artists can reveal about the changing nature of colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent

Journalist Patti McCracken discusses the “Angel Makers of Nagyrév” – the all-female murder ring whose poisonings shocked early 20th-century Hungary