The suffragettes took militant action in a bid to gain British women the vote. Here’s how a plot to set the Wimbledon tennis grounds ablaze in 1913 was foiled.

All too often, history books have overlooked the contributions of black and ethnic minority individuals to the British war effort. Times are thankfully changing, and in the 21st century, more measures ...

He was the Merry Monarch who oversaw the Restoration, un-cancelled Christmas, re-opened the pubs and even helped put out the Great Fire of London. But on the flipside, Charles II had metric tonne of ...

The Great Library of Alexandria was one of the ancient world’s most prestigious libraries. So, why did it disappear, and how ...

What impact did Thomas Jefferson have on the genesis of US democracy? How did the third president double the country’s size, and what were his thoughts on slavery?

September marks the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. There are some however who do not believe the official story of events, shrouding the day in a fog of suspicion and ...

Ross Kemp goes on a global journey to follow a trail of illegal money and drugs along an intricate path where history meets globalisation to reveal the true reality of Britain’s historical ...

On March 24 1944, one of the most audacious projects carried out during WW2 occurred. It was the mass escape of Allied soldiers from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III, the story of which ...

It was thanks to ULTRA that we won the war. The Enigma story began in the 1920s, when the German military - using an 'Enigma' machine developed for the business market – began to communicate in ...

How was the Met Office founded? The Meteorological Office, known as the Met Office for short, is the UK’s national weather service and was founded in 1854. The original purpose of the organisation was ...

In the long history of English – and later British - monarchs, there are the superstars and there are the ones that, if not exactly forgotten about, are less well-remembered and just there to make up ...

Hanging on a wall in Scone Palace in Perth, Scotland, is an 18th-century double portrait of two young women of high society. One is sitting reading a book whilst the other is passing by clutching a ...