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Over 900 gleaming gold coins. A mystery over 2,000 years in the making. Unearthed in the village of Great Baddow near Chelmsford, Essex, The Great Baddow Hoard is the largest discovery of Iron Age gold coins ever found in Britain. Buried deep in the earth during the Late Iron Age - around the same time Julius Caesar was launching his first invasions of Britain - this incredible collection of decorated staters is being revealed to the world in a brand new exhibition at the Museum of Chelmsford.
Europe's largest street festival, Notting Hill Carnival, is marking its 60th year this weekend.
The event, split across Bank Holiday Sunday and Monday has only ever been cancelled three times - first in 1970 following severe local community and police tensions and again during the Covid restrictions.
The Carnival brings more than two million people each year to the now sought after streets of West London.
We’ve been at the pre-party to check out the planning and preparation.
NATO is holding military drills in Iceland, to strengthen the alliance's defense of critical sea routes and undersea infrastructure in the Arctic north. Air and naval forces from ten nations are taking part in the Northern Viking exercise that takes place every two years. DW News correspondent Teri Schultz joined a Canadian ship practicing anti-submarine warfare.
To honor around 600 French soldiers who died during the Sino-French War in 1885 in fortifications near Taiwan, Keelung residents burned a paper warship and prepared a feast with baguettes and wine for the spirits during "Ghost Month."
Explore the tragic breakdown of 17th-century Britain in this definitive documentary on the English Civil War. From the clash of Divine Right and Parliamentary power to the bloody battlefields of Edge Hill, Marston Moor, and Naseby, discover how political deadlock and religious upheaval plunged three kingdoms into chaos. Follow the rise of Oliver Cromwell, the creation of the New Model Army, and the unprecedented, illegal trial that led to the execution of King Charles I.
US President Donald Trump is playing up his ties with North Korea, a day after he ordered the scaling back of America's annual joint military exercises with South Korea.
The president posted online that the joint military exercises were 'totally inappropriate and hostile' to North Korea, who the President says has been 'unthreatening and respectful'.
Adding that he wasn't happy with the drills because of his 'very good relationship' with North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, Trump told reporters that Kim Jong Un had responded to his message, and claimed the situation was becoming much safer through their relationship.
South Korea says the military drills with the US are proceeding "as scheduled", adding it hoped a relationship between Washington and Pyongyang could lead to meaningful talks.
An exciting look at the training of the Royal Marine Commandos. Wherever there is trouble anywhere in the world affecting British interests, you are almost certain to find the Royal Marine Commandos. These tough, highly trained men are the successors to Britain's famous wartime Commando units, and they are ready for any emergency. The men of the Royal Marine Commando Brigade are chosen from the general intake of Marines, all of whom are trained as Commandos. And what a training it is!
Dan Snow meets celebrated military historian Saul David at the National Archives to dig into the top secret documents that tell the story of the incredible planning that went into D-Day.
Hidden in the archives for decades, these papers and photographs reveal meticulous preparations coupled with extraordinary acts of heroism by men and women, researching the Normandy beaches and creating a web of deception that kept German forces guessing where the landings were coming. Using everything from midget submarines to double cross codes, they gave the men assaulting the beaches a fighting chance of success.
Obsessed with the Odyssey? Learn more about ancient Greek myths, people and warfare from our historians Roel Konijnendijk, Natalie Haynes, Honor Cargill-Martin and Tristan Hughes.
Freedom Summer 1964 was a massive voter registration campaign in Mississippi. The first interracial movement of its kind, the project was led by black southern organizers and staffed by both black and white volunteers.
Machines can rewrite history – and no one knows that better than action legend and chemical engineer graduate Dolph Lundgren. Join him as he uncovers the stories behind history’s most groundbreaking machines: witness secret stealth helicopters, spy planes outrunning missiles, espionage tech that won wars, to the rocket that took humanity to the moon. Guided by Dolph’s keen insight and charisma, this is a thrilling ride through the gears, guts, and genius behind the machines that reshaped our world.
Far in the distance, three colossal shapes tower over the desert horizon…
In this episode, we travel to the Nile Valley, and tell the story of one of the most iconic cultures ever produced by humankind – the civilizations of ancient Egypt. I want to show how this series of related cultures grew up in the floodplains of their great river, and built some of the most enduring and recognizable structures in the world. And I want to tell the story of what happened to bring the age of the Pharaohs finally and cataclysmically to an end.
This is life in Gaza near Israel's advancing ‘Yellow Line’, where two million people are now crammed into just 36 per cent of the Strip marked out by the Israeli military amid continued airstrikes, despite the ceasefire with Hamas.
Protests have erupted across Tunisia as power cuts, water shortages, rising living costs and environmental pressures fuel growing public anger. Al Jazeera’s Reem Takieddine explains.
The burial of Polish victims recently exhumed from a World War II massacre has taken place in western Ukraine. The ceremony marks a significant step as Kyiv and Warsaw seek to overcome tensions over one of the most painful chapters in their shared history. DW's Grzegorz Szymanowski reports from the site. #dwcurrentaffairs
Six months after the United States and Israel launched military action against Iran, the conflict shows no sign of coming to an end.
As Washington turns its focus to economic pressure, Tehran remains defiant - with the Strait of Hormuz seen as key leverage.
The uncertainty keeps economies and markets volatile, pushing up prices around the world and straining international relations.
A conflict that US President Donald Trump said would last a few weeks has now lasted half a year, so where do we go from here and when might the war end?
James is on the trail of Adolf Eichmann, the notorious Nazi bureaucrat who escaped justice for 15 years until his trial made the Holocaust a household name.
Step into the legendary world of Homer’s Odyssey, a tale of courage, temptation, monsters, and the long journey home. Follow Odysseus as he battles impossible challenges and fights to return to Ithaca.
Historian Kevin Ruane answers your questions about Winston Churchill, the two-time Prime Minister celebrated for leading Britain through the Second World War, yet still one of the most controversial figures in modern British history.
August 17, 1858. New York City wakes to a hundred-gun salute. Church bells ring, flags fly from public buildings, and by nightfall, fireworks light up the sky. The city is celebrating a telegram from Queen Victoria to President Buchanan. Not what it says, but how it traveled: along a 2,000-mile cable running under the Atlantic Ocean. Messages that once took two weeks by steamship now arrive in an instant. And the man behind the cable, a retired paper tycoon named Cyrus Field, is about to become the most famous person in America. But Field has a secret. His cable is already failing.
How did World War II create the American road trip? After the war, rising car ownership, Route 66, roadside motels, gas stations, diners, and fast-food chains transformed travel—and gave us the road trip aesthetic we know today.
In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation legally freed enslaved people within the United States. Still, it took military backing, specifically from the 25th Army Corps of the US Colored Troops, to help enforce this new law.
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