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.
The UK has many church buildings, with some especially reputed for their hauntings. Here are several of those sites — and ...
In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...
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.
Join Jason Fox and Bruce Crompton in Sky HISTORY’s Battle Treasures as they explore rare military artefacts and the history ...
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.
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 ...
Syndrome K, the fictitious disease invented by Italian doctors that fooled the Nazi’s and saved lives.
The bill eventually passed through Parliament and implemented calendar reform on Sept 2nd, 1752, which was immediately followed by Thursday 14th - technically removing eleven days out of the month.
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 ...