From both sides of the war and all around the world, captured soldiers, sailors and airmen dared the impossible to win their freedom. Greatest Escapes of WWII, starting Tuesday, 29th April on Sky ...

Unlike the often tumultuous period that exists between the transfer of power from one prime minister to the next, there is no such interval when a new monarch ascends to the throne. The very instant a ...

RMS Titanic was one of three Olympic-class ocean liners built between 1908 and 1915. Her sister ships were RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic. While the sinking of Titanic made her the most famous ship in ...

The Easter Rising was one of the most important events in modern Irish history. Taking place in April 1916, it was an armed rebellion led by Irish republicans who wanted to end British rule in Ireland ...

How many times has the UK hosted Eurovision? On Saturday, 13th May 2023, the UK hosted the Eurovision song contest finals for a record ninth time in Liverpool, on behalf of Ukraine. Even discounting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 2026 FIFA World Cup returns to the USA for the first time since 1994. Here's how football, and America, has changed in ...

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 ...