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The Ludgate Hill area of London during the 'Blitz' in WW2

The decline in the UK's awareness of WW2 facts
Meet comedian Tony Law, pictured above hugging his favourite WW2 aircraft.

Tony Law on the de Havilland Mosquito
Is the Zodiac Killer about to be unmasked after all these decades?

The Zodiac Killer Code Cracked
Knights of the Templar (Convents of Christ) castle in Tomar, Portugal

Top Ten Templar Buildings
Legendary swordsmen were powerful and brave, they were history’s ultimate warriors and the weapons they would wield have become icons of valour.

The World's Most Famous Swords
A replica of the Back to the Future DeLorean is shown at the Cars of the Hollywood Screen car show.

Top 10 Movie Cars of All Time
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The Vikings: the original feminists?
A foggy scene in London

The Day London Vanished

The Unxplained season 1 part B: episode guide
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The day Sir Ranulph Fiennes lost his fingers
Tony Law

The de Havilland Mosquito - the 'wooden wonder'
Battle of Hampton Roads

The greatest naval battles of all time
A photograph of a crown

The sisters who would be Queen

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr: The Hollywood starlet who helped invent WiFi
WW2 House Live, a HISTORY live event was broadcast on Sunday 8th of October at 3pm.

The Story of the Second World War Experience
The first and last President of the Confederate lost the war along with his loot

The Lost Confederate Gold of Jefferson Davis, the Outlaw President
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The Man Awarded Two Victoria Crosses

Blackbeard

The rise and fall of Blackbeard
A black and white photograph of Anne Frank

How Anne Frank's Diary came to be published
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The Russian Revolution, a Century On

The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover, 1540 the vessels depicted in the painting are decorated with wooden panels similar to those of the Mary Rose

The Mary Rose: Tudor battleship
A Tudor cottage in Warwickshire, England

The people of Tudor England

The Military Orders of the Crusades
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera "El chapo", a Mexican drug trafficker, is presented to the media in a hangar at the airport in Mexico City on the 22nd February 2014

The rise of El Chapo

Denver Airport

Denver airport's weird conspiracy theory
Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK

The most picturesque places in…England
Neville Chamberlain waving his Munich agreement at Heston Aerodrome on his return to England in 1938

The Munich agreement: 'Peace for our time'?
A photograph of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland

The Most Picturesque Places in…Scotland
The Sobibor camp gate in the spring of 1943

The Sobibor death camp uprising of 1943
An NHS building sign at Springfields Medical Centre in Warrington, Cheshire, UK

The NHS: a 70-year-old Mistake?
Portrait of Puyi

The Last Emperor: The final ruler of China's Qing dynasty
Emmeline Pankhurst

The history of International Women's Day
Destroyed graves in an abandoned Jewish cemetery in Krakow, Poland, near the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp

The horrors of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
The Flag of Wales

The treachery of the Blue Books
A sign reading 'Arbeit macht frei', which translates to 'Work sets you free' on the gates of a German POW Camp

The true story of The Great Escape

The Knights of St Lazarus