There’s recently been a trend of Vikings being portrayed on screen. So, which film and TV dramas about these Norse ...

From the sun-scorched cliffs of Arizona’s Superstition Mountains to the volcanic shores of Santorini, uncover locations where ...

Explore the secret life and legacy of WWII British Intelligence officer Vera Atkins and discover her pivotal role during the ...

Reflect on 80 years since Auschwitz’s liberation. Explore its history, echoes in today’s world and lessons to shape a more ...

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in Earth orbit. Learn more about her life, career and ...

You might have heard of ‘Opposite Day’, a tradition encouraging quirky behaviour. What exactly do people do on Opposite Day, ...

Today, the word ‘terrible’ can be used to describe anything from a particularly bad meal to a natural disaster that kills millions of people. Back in the 16th Century when it was a nickname bestowed ...

Henry VIII (1491 – 1547) is perhaps the most well known of all England’s monarchs, notably for the fact that he had six wives and beheaded two of them. Besides presiding over sweeping changes that ...

Alderney, a tiny island in the English Channel, is the site of one of the darkest and most mysterious chapters in World War II. Given the sinister codename 'Adolf Island', Alderney became a ...

Mafia bosses, capos and hitmen have lived all over the UK, some in the most unlikely of places, from caravan parks to shoe shops, semi-detached houses to coffee shops. Ross Kemp goes on a global ...

In the past 50 years, over 20,000 people have vanished in an area of northwest Alaska known as the ‘Alaska Triangle’. Famous for its vast and dangerous landscape, many believe the terrain and local ...

As the years have passed since World War II, the world has learned more about the secret endeavours Allied forces undertook in their desperation to win. Some of these efforts, like the spy mission ...