On the evening of 5th June 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower sat down and wrote a note that he hoped no one would ever need to read. ‘If any blame or fault is attached to the attempt,’ he wrote, ‘it ...

We all think we know Marilyn Monroe. We recognise her from Old Hollywood films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire and Some Like It Hot. We’ve seen her face on a certain Andy ...

The period in history known as the Viking Age was violently heralded in with the Lindisfarne raid of 793 AD. That bloody encounter off the northeast coast of England between Christian monks and ...

Grandson to Queen Victoria, the old-fashioned but popular King George V, who reigned over an empire from which the sun never set, had a dark side to his personality that today would make him the most ...

Secrets of The Hells Angels goes deep into the world of the secretive and notorious biker club revealing a much more violent and devious group than anyone realised. The show airs Tuesdays at 10pm on ...

St David’s Day is a joyous moment in the Welsh calendar, synonymous with parades, concerts, children in traditional dress, and the proud wearing of daffodils and leeks on lapels. But just who was St ...

The second of nine children, Kennedy was reared in a family that demanded intense physical and intellectual competition among the siblings. The family's touch football games at their Hyannis Port ...

On a chilly morning on the 19th May 1536 at 8.00am, thirty-six-year-old Anne Boleyn walked a few steps from her confined chambers to Tower Green and into history as the first English Queen to be tried ...

Despite monarchy being largely constitutional at the start of Queen Victoria’s ascension, her 63-year reign saw her preside over the abolition of slavery, the expansion of workers’ welfare, the speedy ...

France’s fall to the Nazis early in the Second World War is one of Gallic history’s most ignominious chapters. It’s all the more tragic when you consider the far-reaching measures that France had ...

In this guest article, Dr Matthew Hefler, an expert in international and intelligence history at the Stockholm School of Economics, uncovers how espionage deepened the mistrust between Winston ...

Dan Carlin of Hardcore History shares his unique perspective on WWII storytelling ahead of Sky HISTORY's new documentary, ...