How did the real-life rivalry between street gangs the Peaky Blinders and the Birmingham Boys take shape? Sky HISTORY investigates in a new series.

It’s now 30 years since Sky HISTORY first burst onto TV screens. How apt, then, that the number 30 has played a major part in quite a few historical ...

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

Sky HISTORY launched 30 years ago, so what was life like for Brits back then? We sum up the UK’s biggest cultural, sporting and political moments of 1995.

During the Middle Ages (also known as the Medieval period) public torture and execution was common throughout the United Kingdom and regarded as a socially accepted form of punishment. Different ...

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 ...

Celebrations held at the end of October may have changed vastly from the original pagan feasts of Samhain, but the donning of disguises has remained over hundreds if not thousands of years. As fashion ...

Thousands of innocent women were sentenced to death as the ‘witch craze’ swept across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The southeast England county of Essex alone was responsible for many of the ...