A new 50p coin marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings has been released ... or a run of 8,000 coin sets including the 50p piece and a 1944 George VI farthing for £18.

The key to the Pyx Chamber, a low, vaulted room dating to the 11th century where royal gold and silver coins were stored ... installed in 1937 for King George VI’s coronation.

Coinage played a part in spreading the fame of kings - the more often coins passed through men's hands, and the further afield they were taken by plunder or trade, the more famous their Royal sponsors ...

Day, so we looked into the KGW Vault for something to mark the occasion — coming up with a retrospective from 1984.

Seward wrote: 'Like his mother, Charles was sensitive to the plight of others, but like his grandfather George VI, he is intolerant ... in his private apartments I'd muddled something – some ...

Today marks the anniversary of one of the most important dates of the 20th Century, D- Day, June 6, 1944. The invasion of the Allied Forces at Normandy would be the start of the liberation of ...

Coast Guard Gunner's Mate Frank DeVita crawled over the bodies of the dead who lay in the blood and puke covering the deck of the Higgins boat on Omaha Beach to save the landing craft during the ...

Even though the day is already passed, why don’t you go and leave a flag on the grave of a veteran to remember his sacrifice? Or perhaps you want to leave a coin or a spray of roses.

“Before I dozed off, I did not forget to get on my knees and thank God for helping me to live through this day and to ask His help on D+1. I would live this war one day at a time, and I promised ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Wake Forest and baseball coach Tom Walter apologized on Tuesday for what appeared to be a homophobic slur caught by television cameras during an NCAA regional game ...

“They were giving us 10-to-1 odds we'd never come back,” Clermont said. The crew of the Herndon was tasked with taking out the German pillboxes that threatened the Allied ground forces that ...

The great and the gilded gathered to mark one of the most anticipated aristocratic weddings of the season on 7 June, as Lord George Carnegie, son of the 4th Duke and Duchess of Fife, tied the knot ...