In Poland, archaeologists have discovered a skeleton buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe – this ...

Discover the real-life assassination plot that inspired Frederick Forsyth’s 'The Day of the Jackal', based on an attempt on ...

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was an inspirational group of diverse women in World War II. But what exactly ...

Colonel Thomas E. Rose inspired 109 men to escape from one of the most notorious Confederate prisons of the American Civil ...

Nostradamus has ostensibly been on the money about a large number of huge historical events… could his streak continue in ...

From the execution of Louis XVI to the defeat of Napoleon III, the falls of the monarchy in France changed the face of the ...

The field of Agincourt was a setting that greatly benefited the English. For one thing, its narrowness diminished the ...

Published in May 2024, the Pickles Report has finally brought some clarity to the number of prisoners who died in the Nazi ...

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades, these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia into an underworld empire. Five Families, based on Selwyn Raab's New York ...

Mafia bosses, capos and hitmen have lived all over the UK, some in the most unlikely of places, from caravan parks to shoe shops, semi-detached houses to coffee shops. Ross Kemp goes on a global ...

In the past 50 years, over 20,000 people have vanished in an area of northwest Alaska known as the ‘Alaska Triangle’. Famous for its vast and dangerous landscape, many believe the terrain and local ...

From September 1940 to May 1941, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) executed a sustained campaign of bombing British towns and cities. This became known as the Blitz and over 43,500 civilians were ...