Did you know it’s been 60 years since cigarette ads were banned? Join us as we take a look back on how it happened and where ...

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Billy Hill was an icon in the London criminal underworld, but he tends to be forgotten. Read on to find out more.

Contrary to what classic Westerns might have you believe, many women made their mark in the Old West. Cynthia Ann Parker is ...

Discover the tragically short life of Hamnet Shakespeare, the boy (potentially) immortalised in his father’s greatest work.

For the thousands of British servicemen captured during the fall of Singapore and Malaya in 1942, VJ Day marked liberation ...

The Last Burma Star pays tribute to the last surviving veterans of the Burma Campaign, who fought alongside British and ...

Most people haven’t heard of Doubly Thankful Villages, but they really should have. These communities, scattered throughout England and Wales, enjoyed near-miraculous good fortune during the most ...

Watch the trailer for 'Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter' before the first episode airs on 18th April.

The El Dorado of the sea On 23 September, 1641, an English galleon named the Merchant Royal, loaded with gold and silver, sank off the coast of Cornwall. The wreck remains lost to this day. Within her ...

Troy Landry has cemented his reputation as ‘King of the Swamp’. Here’s how the Louisiana native became the lead star of Sky ...

2. The crime against the Oirat Ögedei Khan, son of Genghis Khan, ruled as Khagan-Emperor of the Mongol Empire from 1229 to 1241. Like his father, Ögedei loved war, sending the vast Mongol hordes ...