The investigative powers of science and art have combined to identify a bejeweled Book of Hours in Trinity College Cambridge’s collection as belonging to English statesman Thomas Cromwell, who served ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

BIOGRAPHIES of men of renown and national heroes—naval, military, and political—are necessary for the due appraisement by the historian, not merely of the men themselves but also of the times in which ...

James Cook and his crew found the spears in an empty camp on 29 April 1770 and took them aboard their ship Four spears taken from an Aboriginal community by James Cook and Joseph Banks during their ...

An American donor has withdrawn funding from Cambridge University's richest college, accusing it of failing to properly investigate the defacing of a painting of Lord Balfour - and of considering ...

A 56-year-old photograph of King Charles as a teenager during his college years has been revealed before his coronation. The snap of Charles for his entry at the University of Cambridge has been ...