With the Axis in the ascendancy in North Africa and optimistic of taking the Suez canal, the battles of El Alamein were ...

In the 1930s, Heinrich Himmler was on the lookout for something suitably grand and impressive to house a retreat and training school for SS members. After failing to negotiate the lease on a castle ...

American-born Robert Prevost was elected as the 267th pope in history and chose to be known as Pope Leo XIV. But who is he ...

The Papal conclave is a sacred and time-honoured tradition, marking the transition of leadership within the Catholic Church after a pope's passing. Recently, this process was dramatised in the ...

Josef Mengele carried out abhorrent experiments on thousands of inmates at Auschwitz. Learn more about the Angel of Death in ...

Fanta came to be in Germany in 1941, during the turbulent times of World War II. Despite the difficult time, life continued, ...

After hiding treasure valued at $2 million somewhere in the American wilderness, former art dealer Forrest Fenn sparked off a ...

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 ...

Ambition, displacement and architectural innovation. These ideas take centre stage in the Oscar-nominated film The Brutalist. The most intriguing part? László Tóth, brought to life by Academy ...

Discover the heroic stories of key figures from Britain’s fearless World War 2 commandos and their remarkable contributions ...

Find out how engineer and drilling expert Craig Tester has helped in the hunt for buried treasure on Sky HISTORY series The ...

Centuries before homosexuality was made legal between consenting adults in 1967, the ‘love that dare not speak its name’ was viewed as a sin in England, particularly by the church, and technically ...