To celebrate World War II with Tom Hanks on Sky HISTORY, test your knowledge of the battles, leaders and human stories that ...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup returns to the USA for the first time since 1994. Here's how football, and America, has changed in ...
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founding father of the modern ...
Also known as the ‘Golden Square outbreak’, the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak remains one of the most important events in the history of public health, health geography and epidemiology. In 1854, ...
It’s a dry, tedious legal document from a distant age, almost entirely focused on archaic feudal laws and the snarling grievances of long-dead land barons. Yet somehow, Magna Carta has become an ...
Looking at the super-modern city-state of Singapore now, it’s hard to believe that it was once a ruinous warzone. However, as the world found itself engulfed in war in the early 1940s, Singapore ...
One of the best-known chapters of World War II is ‘the Blitz’, when the Luftwaffe subjected British cities to eight months of sustained bombing. It was a change of aerial strategy for Nazi Germany ...
The following is a guest article from historian and final-year PhD researcher Jack Beesley, known on TikTok as History's Hidden Chapters. His research examines how royal scandal and campaigns for ...
A sword engraved with Templar crosses. An ornate libation vessel hewn from alabaster. An iron box depicting Biblical images. These are some of the tantalising treasures in the possession of Carl ...
On the centenary of women finally getting the vote (or moneyed women over 30 at any rate), it’s hard to think of anything but the suffragettes. Come election time, how often are women reminded that ...
When the UK recorded its hottest temperatures on record in July 2022, it sparked conversations about the effects of climate change on our weather. Seven of the ten hottest temperatures in UK history ...