What do you know about the Peaky Blinders in real life? The truth is quite different to the popular TV crime drama, as a new ...

The ‘Space Race’ between the United States and the Soviet Union in the late 20th century captured imaginations across the world. In the 1950s and 1960s, the two superpowers fought to demonstrate which ...

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One Small Step For Pac-Man, One Giant Leap For Pac-Man-KindHappy birthday to Pac-Man, who was first released in Japan on this day in 1980. Or should I say ‘Puck Man’ which was the character’s original ...

You wouldn’t think there was all that much to say about a tin of mushed-up pork, but Spam has been on quite a journey since it was introduced in the 1930s. From being the unpopular staple food of ...

Let’s start with the biggest misconception about knights’ armour, shall we? Most folk assume - understandably - that once armour was on, it was virtually impossible to move with any freedom at all.

Rylan Clark teams up with anthropologist Professor Alice Roberts to investigate one of the darkest and most harrowing chapters in British history - the murder of hundreds of women accused of ...

Heather Morris' historical novel 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz ' is a love story set in the darkest of times. It tells the true story of how two Jewish prisoners, Lali, an Auschwitz tattooist, and Gita, ...

One Small Step For Pac-Man, One Giant Leap For Pac-Man-KindHappy birthday to Pac-Man, who was first released in Japan on this day in 1980. Or should I say ‘Puck Man’ which was the character’s original ...

Many modern motifs of the occult - from spiritual imagery to tarot cards - were first popularised by the visionary magician Éliphas Lévi in the 19th century.

The City of London website describes the Old Bailey as ‘the most famous criminal court in the world’, and it’s not hard to see why. Dating back to the late Tudor period, over the centuries it has ...