Popular historian Niall Ferguson tells Stephen Jewell how television democratises knowledge and why colonialism wasn't all bad.

Daniel Craig has been signed up to replace famed broadcaster Sir David Attenborough as the voice of Britain's BBC nature documentaries.

The play Mary Stuart brings Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots face-to-face, as played by two of our own leading ladies.

A new venture in Denniston allows visitors to step back 100 years to experience life in the coal mines, complete with ghostly visions and echoes of another era, writes Jim Eagles.

"We have a lot more to remember than you people will ever have." A World War II veteran, speaking on radio last Tuesday.

Six striking American cars from a period spanning 40 years are among 27 classic vehicles that will go under the hammer in Sydney on May 2.

Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, the youngest member of the climbing team that first scaled Mount Everest, has died.

It makes Alfrieda Thompson smile wryly that her war-hero father named her after a girlfriend he had during World War I.

With flames spreading rapidly though his bomber aircraft, 22-year-old Sergeant Jimmy Ward tied a rope around his waist and crawled out on to the wing to douse the flames.

It has been easy to honour service in World War II. No other war, including World War I, has had such just cause.