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 ...

Women have been key players in espionage for centuries – centuries longer than you probably thought. Of course, when you think of surveillance, the first era that likely springs to mind is the Cold ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday, on Sunday, 19th March 2023, and already we’re on shaky ground. Which is correct? In some ways, both are right as both Mother’s Day/Mothering Sunday are a ...

Since December 26, 1941, the fourth Thursday in November is always Thanksgiving, a directive that was signed and sealed by President Roosevelt, and the following day is what we now know as Black ...

Amy set off alone from Croydon on 5 May 1930, and landed in Darwin on 24 May, a flight distance of 11,000 miles. She was the first woman to fly alone to Australia, and came home to the UK to a hero’s ...