History Pictures

Spanish campaigners have now dug up a mass grave in Guadalajara, after the Argentine court piled pressure on Spain to confront its troubled past.

The big screen reboot of the sitcom has reignited interest in Britain's Home Guard during the Second World War.

Heavily fortified secret nuclear bunker dating back to latter stages of Cold War is up for sale to the public.

Elderly survivors return to the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp on International Holocaust Memorial Day.

Of the 50 artists featured in Art from the Holocaust, 24 were murdered by the Nazis.

Donald Trump says if it was OK for Roosevelt to incarcerate Japanese-Americans in WW2, then it's OK to ban Muslims now.

On 9 September Queen Elizabeth II will surpass her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria's reign of 63 years and 216 days.

Photos illustrating Britain's history of welcoming refugees fleeing conflicts around the world.

The third-strongest hurricane ever in the US made a direct hit on New Orleans on 29 August 2005.

Hurricane Katrina produced images never before seen in an American city.

Second World War veterans share their photos and poignant memories of VJ Day and the events leading up to it.

Ex-'comfort women' in South Korea and China describe abduction and rape by Japanese during Second World War.

On 6 August 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by one on Nagasaki.

The United States and Cuba have re-established embassies in each other's capitals, formally restoring diplomatic ties.

It is 20 years since the Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.

A new book featuring a selection of the nine million photos in Historic England's archive.

Portraits of Second World War veterans from each of the 15 former Soviet republics.

On 7 May 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the second world war in Europe.

Photographer recreates photos taken as the Soviet army entered Hitler's shattered capital in 1945.

Getty Images photographer Sean Gallup visited Anzac Cove, the site of the Battle of Gallipoli.

Hollande and Putin at service commemorating the centenary of the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks.

The German Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen was liberated by British troops 70 years ago.

IBTimes UK presents a gallery of historic street scenes in Soho, an area under threat of redevelopment.

Edward Sheriff Curtis dedicated his life to photographing the lives of Native American people.

Award-winning Reuters photographers share the stories behind iconic news images.

Interactive photos show Dresden after the Allied bombing raids, and the same scenes today.

Auschwitz survivors revisit the Nazi death camp to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

January 27 will mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau pose for portraits and share their memories of the Nazi death camp.

Yadegar Asisi's circular image 100m wide and 30m high of Dresden after the Allied air raids