Anne Frank: life of the week

How did England – and Englishness – emerge from the final days of Roman Britain? And what separated Englishness from Britishness? Emeritus professor Nicholas Higham –whose latest book is How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons – speaks to James Osborne to explor ...  Show more

Alfred the Great’s victory over the Vikings at the battle of Edington brought the campaign of the Great Heathen Army to an end – but it didn't conclude the wider story. In the final episode of our Sunday Series on the ninth-century Viking invasion of Anglo-Saxon England, Dr Elean ...  Show more

Anne Frank is one of the world’s most famous writers, yet she didn’t live long enough to see her work published. At the age of thirteen, Anne was a normal teenager, who poured her heart into a diary. But what made her diary different, was that she created within its pages a snaps ...  Show more

Anne est une jeune fille de confession juive, née en Allemagne en 1929. En 1933, sa famille fuit aux Pays-Bas. L’oppression nazie oblige les Frank à entrer dans la clandestinité. Anne commence alors à rédiger un journal. En 1944, ils sont déportés. Le père d'Anne, seul rescapé ...

On January 27th 1945, the Red Army liberated the concentration camp at Auschwitz unveiling its almost unspeakable horrors to the world. 

The concentration camp system began almost immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. It was an int ...

Every day Rudolf Höss oversaw the killing of thousands of people at the death camp and then went home and acted like a doting father to his family. Höss was brought in by top Nazis to pioneer the industrialisation of the mass murder of Europe's Jews and others. He lived in a h ...