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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Ravensbrück might not be as well-known as Auschwitz or Dachau. But it was the Nazis’ main concentration camp built ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

The Burma Campaign was a long and important part of WWII - so why is it so often overlooked? Let’s take a look in more detail ...

It was Hitler's belief that the war from the air would terrorise London into defeat. He was wrong. The city's inhabitants, on the contrary, took a perverse and particular pleasure from being the front ...

If there’s one constant about Nostradamus, it’s that he never quite leaves the conversation. Every year, fresh prophecies are dusted off and repackaged for the calendar ahead. 2025 was no exception.