A new Netflix series dramatises the 1881 killing of 20th US President James Garfield. We tell the story of Charles Guiteau, the man who pulled the trigger.

Discover the truth behind history’s most notorious outlaws as Sean Bean investigates Al Capone, the Krays, and more in ...

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice ...

Almost half a millennium after his death, Nostradamus is still history’s most famous astrologer and seer. His number one status is also particularly remarkable when you consider just how strange and ...

The Alaska Triangle, a region in northwest Alaska, has more unsolved missing person cases than anywhere else in the world. Over 20,000 people have vanished in the past 50 years alone. Who or what’s ...

Why is the Battle of Bannockburn one of the most celebrated Scottish military victories ever? The Sky HISTORY series ...

On 7 October 1944, the inhuman tyranny of Auschwitz was suddenly challenged in the most astounding way. A group of prisoners, known as the Sonderkommando, fought back against the SS, in an act of ...

‘Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops'. Ever since the Battle of Stalingrad ended in early 1943, the Germans have been ...

The 15th-century Newport Medieval Ship was rediscovered by accident in 2002. Now, a new Sky HISTORY programme reveals more of ...

Amy set off alone from Croydon on 5 May 1930, and landed in Darwin on 24 May, a flight distance of 11,000 miles. She was the first woman to fly alone to Australia, and came home to the UK to a hero’s ...

"The Gulags existed before Beria, but he was the one who built them on a mass scale. He industrialised the Gulag system. Human life had no value for him." "Beria was more treacherous, more practiced ...

William Lever built Britain’s largest company and in so doing, made the first modern multinational. And unlike the US Robber Barons, for Lord Leverhulme his British workers' welfare was as important ...