How rich was Al Capone? We separate Outfit revenue from his take, translate to today’s dollars and bust myths.

Cleopatra’s dramatic life and death were so intense it verges on fiction, something that was noticed by literary giant William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra) and George Bernard Shaw (Caesar and ...

In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...

Escape tools became prominent in December 1939 thanks to MI9, a new military intelligence branch of the British government.

Decades after it was taken, AI has helped name the Nazi in a Holocaust photograph long shrouded in mystery - and changed how we remember it.

Join Jason Fox and Bruce Crompton in Sky HISTORY’s Battle Treasures as they explore rare military artefacts and the history ...

The UK has many church buildings, with some especially reputed for their hauntings. Here are several of those sites — and ...

Stephanie St. Clair was the Madame Queen of Harlem. She battled corruption and broke racial and gender barriers. Read more ...

Not all of Baba Vanga’s visions came true. Explore the surprising predictions she got wrong and why people still believe her.

What do you know about the Peaky Blinders in real life? The truth is quite different to the popular TV crime drama, as a new ...

Syndrome K, the fictitious disease invented by Italian doctors that fooled the Nazi’s and saved lives.

Sky HISTORY launched The History Award, an ambitious pilot built to spark creativity and a genuine love of the past in ...