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 ...

Escape tools became prominent in December 1939 thanks to MI9, a new military intelligence branch of the British government.

Join Jason Fox and Bruce Crompton in Sky HISTORY’s Battle Treasures as they explore rare military artefacts and the history ...

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.

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.

He married a nineteen-year-old bride in 1772 but, after another break down, forced her into a Convent. From 1783, 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' was ill and was nursed by his daughter until 1788, when he ...

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 ...

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.