1916: First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men. 1920: French tennis superstar Suzanne Lenglen beats Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-0 to win the ...

SPY chiefs probed a suspected “Russian double agent” at the heart of MI6 in a 20-year global operation, it has been revealed.

The Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi, the world’s oldest parliament, is established. 1547: Champion of the Protestant Reformation, Philip I, ...

Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, who recently starred in Guy Ritchie's MobLand, will reunite in an upcoming crime comedy on Netflix.

The Cold War section displays a passport and a personalised briefcase left in a London club by British diplomat Guy Burgess, a Russian double agent since World War II who fled to Moscow in 1951 as ...

A briefcase left behind by infamous Cambridge spy Guy Burgess as he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among never-before-seen MI5 artefacts going on display at The National Archives in Kew, South-West London.

A leather briefcase left at London's Reform Club by Cambridge spy Guy Burgess as he fled to Moscow in 1951 is one of the items on display. His British passport is also on show for the first time.

Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent during World War Two and the early Cold War period. He was a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring and fled to Moscow due to fears of being ...

Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent during the Second World War and the early Cold War period. He was a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring and fled to Moscow with fellow spy ...

A briefcase abandoned by infamous Cambridge spy Guy Burgess as he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among the never-before-seen MI5 artefacts going on display at The National Archives in Kew, south-west ...