A popular Capital Region bridge is being renamed after an American hometown hero who fought in the First World War. On Tuesday, New York lawmakers proposed new legislation to rename the Patroon Island ...

The marker honors 1,250 Black college graduates who underwent U-S Army Officer training at Fort Des Moines in 1917 during World War I. At the onset of war, the U.S. War Department doubted whether ...

This week's Remember When features Maidenhead Carnival and a call to protect the town hall from future redevelopment.

The grave of a missing World War One soldier has been identified in Belgium. Capt Ernest Cecil Blencowe of the Dorsetshire Regiment died in February 1916 trying to get control of The Bluff, an area of ...

Jay Singh-Sohal has received an OBE in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours list for his work honouring Sikhs serving in the ...

The book has been highlighted on Penguin Random House's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of Summer 2025 list.

During the first world war (1914-1918) thousands of African men enlisted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners in Germany. Their stories and songs were recorded and ...

Keysor had won Britain’s highest military honor for heroism, the Victoria Cross, as a bomb thrower (hand grenade) during the ...

Lennon stars as Musketeer Gripweed, mischevious, a wise-cracking private in the surreal film. Though the Imagine singer gets ...

A naturalized U.S. citizen who pleaded guilty to receiving military training from the Islamic State in Syria was sentenced on Monday to 10 years in federal prison. Lirim Sylejmani, 49, who was ...

Many people are aware—consciously or instinctively—that the world’s first successful powered aircraft flight took place in a ...