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Poland requested the payment of some $1.3 trillion in reparations for the damage incurred by occupying Nazi Germans during World War II.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while some conservatives do want to whitewash the past, “plenty of liberals also want to abuse history to control the present,” through presentism and acting as through “the

King Charles III has been formally proclaimed as monarch following a meeting of the ancient Accession Council in St James’s Palace.

The late Queen Elizabeth II warned against “unthinking people” seeking to throw away “ageless ideals” in an age of rapid change in her first-ever televised Christmas message in 1957.

The Latvian government has gone ahead with the demolition of a Soviet-era war memorial in the capital city of Riga this week, the latest Soviet monument to be destroyed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The ‘Save Our Statues’ group has launched a “plaque-cheque” campaign to fact-check so-called information boards defaming historic figures depicted in memorials.

In the latest example of woke historical revisionism, a scholar has claimed that Queen Elizabeth I of England was “non-binary”.

French female warrior Joan of Arc has been cast as a gender-neutral character with “they/them” pronouns at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

Glasgow City Council has been accused of plotting to purge a number of supposedly “controversial” statues from the city’s main square, despite having previously insisted that rumours of such a plan were “nonsense”.

Woke curators at the Royal Collection Trust (RCT) are reviewing over 2,500 artworks and photographs to ensure they conform to politically correct language codes and emphasise any supposed links to slavery and imperialism.

Prosecutors in Poland questioned witnesses after a 31-year-old man allegedly placed powerful explosives in a busy downtown area of Warsaw.

Poland is among the staunchest allies of Ukraine against Russian aggression, but the violence between 1942 and 1945 is a point of contention.

Teachers in Florida will now learn more American history for civics courses, including the importance of religion in the public square.

The Dutch central bank apologized for the institution’s involvement in the 19th-century slave trade, the latest such expression of contrition.

A new San Francisco school board voted to reverse an earlier board decision to remove a George Washington mural because of slavery images.

One of Britain’s ace historians has claimed that people in the modern age can self-identify as trans in order to boost their social status and gain respect.

Thousands of druids, pagans and New Agers greeted the summer solstice at Stonehenge on the longest day of the northern hemisphere year.

Yellowstone National Park announced on Thursday it will be renaming a peak originally dubbed after a cavalryman, who was instrumental in the park’s establishment, due to his name being “offensive.”

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – When D-Day veterans set foot on the Normandy beaches and other World War II sites, they express a mix of joy and sadness. Joy at seeing the gratitude and friendliness of the French toward those who landed on June 6, 1944. Sadness as they think of their fallen comrades and of another battle now being waged in Europe: the war in Ukraine.

Queen Elizabeth II greeted thousands gathered on Pall Mall outside Buckingham Palace to wish her well on the 70th year of her reign.

Soldiers participating in the traditional Trooping of the Colour for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee refused to break their gait after protesters rushed into the street, eventually being dragged away by police.

Four days of celebrations honouring Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the throne will get underway Thursday with a display of British military traditions stretching from the days of horse and cannon to the jet age.

Britain marked Oak Apple Day on May 29th – a once hugely popular holiday celebrating the escape of the future Charles II from Oliver Cromwell and the country’s eventual return to tradition. 

Activists including a 59-year-old university arts centre director egged a statue of Britain’s first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, as it was installed in her home town of Grantham. 

Academics who specialise in Medieval History have become embroiled in an internal racism row over the alleged focus on “whiteness” within Anglo-Saxon history.

Leftists in Britain celebrated St George’s Day on Saturday with their annual issuing of false claims that the Roman soldier of Cappadocian Greek ethnicity was, variously, “Turkish”, “Arab”, and “a migrant worker” in an effort to “own” English patriots.

Celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course in order to ‘decolonise of the curriculum’.

Jamaica indicated on Wednesday that they intend to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and become a republic.

Whoopi Goldberg, has called for the royal family to apologise for the British Empire and its role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

British comedy icon John Cleese had his mic taken by woke co-panellists at an event in Austin, Texas, after pointing out that British imperialism was not unique and that the British, too, were once slaves.  

Hungary, noted for its strong border policies, has opened its arms to Ukrainian refugees despite having a policy of “blocking cooperation with Ukraine at every European Union and NATO forum” over the country’s treatment of its Hungarian minority until Russia invaded, an official told Breitbart News this week.

Govt advisors in Brussels suggested a statue of controversial Belgian King Leopold II should be melted down and turned into a memorial.

Edinburgh’s municipal government has been condemned for a slapping a Black Lives Matter-inspired plaque on one of the Scottish capital’s most iconic monuments, accusing the statesman it commemorates of personal responsibility for “more than half a million enslaved Africans cross[ing] the Atlantic.”

Tory grandee and David Cameron’s former right-hand man George Osborne has backed the BLM radicals who destroyed Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol. 

English Morris Dancers have cancelled their traditional face paint opting for a non-black colour over allegations of racism.

The video shows a masked man who says he is a Sikh named Jaswant Singh Chail vowing to assassinate the Queen as revenge for a 1919 massacre.