MG Leonard's favourite historical adventures for kids breathe life into stories from Caesar's Rome to the First World War.

Energy Sector Budget 2025: Union Budget 2025 will be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 1 February 2025, in Parliament, that is today. Stay tuned as Sitharaman presents the Budget, ...

Historian Gareth Russell has written Queen James, a biography of King James VI and I - the last king of Scotland - who moved to London ...

Lucy Worsley: Midnight on the 4th of November, 1605. [Wind blowing] ♪ In a cellar deep below Parliament, a man called Guy Fawkes prepares to light the fuse of a deadly attack planned by a small ...

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On the 5th November 1605, a terrorist cell of desperate men tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament, but what drove these men to the extreme and why is their mural on the London tube?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the US on a two-day visit to hold high-stakes talks with President Donald Trump in ...

Moffett ’29. ABSTRACT: Guy Fawkes nearly blew up the House of Lords during the opening of Parliament in 1605. Had Fawkes been a Spaniard, he would have been treated as an enemy. But as an Englishman, ...

On 4 November 1605, Cecil ordered searches of the whole of the Houses of Parliament, and Fawkes was arrested. He was found dressed for a swift exit with spurs on his boots. Fawkes endured two days ...

The cost of applying for naturalisation as a British citizen would also increase from £1,500 to £1,605. Authorities ... pass under the Labour-controlled Parliament. Currently, new applicants ...

Jan. 27 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1606, the surviving conspirators in the "Gunpowder Treason" plot to blow up the English Parliament and the king of England on Nov. 5, 1605, were convicted.

On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz network of concentration camps in Poland, freeing some 7,000 survivors.