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 ...

One Small Step For Pac-Man, One Giant Leap For Pac-Man-KindHappy birthday to Pac-Man, who was first released in Japan on this day in 1980. Or should I say ‘Puck Man’ which was the character’s original ...

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

Tetris may be a simple, innocent little puzzle game, but its history reads like a bizarre Cold War thriller – a story of secret deals and corporate intrigue spanning both sides of the Iron Curtain. It ...

Celebrate 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a new documentary exploring its history, cult fandom, and lasting ...

In the past couple of years ISIS (Islamic state of Iraq and Syria) or ISIL (Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant) or simply IS, has been all over the news, yet the origins of the so-called Islamic ...

Over the past few decades, during two months every year, a truly historic event occurs: truckers in the world's most dangerous tundra carry vital equipment to remote outposts located hundreds of miles ...

Rylan Clark teams up with anthropologist Professor Alice Roberts to investigate one of the darkest and most harrowing chapters in British history - the murder of hundreds of women accused of ...

Ravensbrück might not be as well-known as Auschwitz or Dachau. But it was the Nazis’ main concentration camp built ...

Many modern motifs of the occult - from spiritual imagery to tarot cards - were first popularised by the visionary magician ...