The historians behind World War II with Tom Hanks have written some brilliant books. Here's what to read next if the series ...

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 ...

One of the differences between the socially cohesive society of the Tudors and fragmented modern society is that all classes used to go to the bear-baiting as well as the theatre, to a court ceremony ...

A WWII series binge is a bit like packing for a long weekend…you think you’re just grabbing the essentials, and then somehow you’ve got five hours of archive footage, a miniseries about paratroopers ...

Third wife to Henry VIII, and mother of Edward VI, it’s easy to see why Jane Seymour played such an integral part in the history of the Tudor dynasty. But who was this otherwise unassuming woman and ...

We are increasingly living in a world where the unthinkable and the unimaginable are becoming reality. Not long ago the thought of organised blackouts in the UK was confined to the history books or ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

During her 70-year-reign, the Queen ruled over 15 British prime ministers and witnessed a monumental shift in British society. As we mark the end of an era, let's look back at the life and ...

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 ...