Most of us are fairly well versed on many of the facts of Word War I with great battles such as the Somme and Battle of Passchendaele but there are some that are so quirky that they have failed ...

The druids were the priests of the ancient Celts, dwelling long ago in the British Isles and Gaul (an ancient region ...

Christopher Eccleston is exploring some of history’s biggest miscarriages of justice in 'The Guilty Innocent', a gripping new ...

Ragnar Lodbrok is known for his magical and militaristic exploits, but his sons were also no slouches when it came to Viking ...

At approximately 8.15am on 6 August 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing around 80,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped ...

The German plan of attack, codenamed Case Yellow, entailed an armoured offensive through the Ardennes Forest, which bypassed the strong French frontier defences of the Maginot Line. The advance would ...

Design flaws, a lack of maintenance or unexpected accidents can all cause disaster for bridges. We explore eight of history’s ...

Himmler in particular was infected by a virulent strain of spiritualism which fed into his racist, supremacist world view. For him, establishing a new Aryan empire meant resurrecting ancient Germanic ...

What do Jesse James, Vlad the Impaler and Robert the Bruce all have in common? Apart from being famous historical figures, they also share ancestors who are considered modern celebrities.

63 monarchs have sat on the English throne spanning a period of nearly 1,200 years. The passing of the Crown from one sovereign to the next hasn’t always been smooth sailing. Today, a royal line of ...

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WW2 Treasure Hunters pairs Britain’s foremost amateur WW2 detectorist with Madness frontman Suggs, as they uncover historical finds from across the UK. The 7 episode series, will see Suggs and WW2 ...