Erwin Rommel remains one of World War II's most admired commanders – even by his enemies. Here's why the 'Desert Fox' earned ...

While submarines were invented before 1914, it was during the so-called ‘Great War’ that effective submarine warfare was properly underway. Below we're looking more closely at U-Boats, their origins ...

The Dambusters raid has gone down in history as one of Britain’s most glorious contributions to vanquishing Nazi Germany. We all know the established story, not least from the classic 1955 film The ...

Mao Zedung was born to a farming family in the Hunan Province in 1893. After witnessing the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of China's awakening nationalism, he served briefly in the ...

Great British Castle Rescue follows Rick Edwards as he ventures inside some of the UK’s most spectacular and endangered castles. From crumbling medieval towers to collapsing royal chambers, engineers ...

Want to know more about history's first extreme sport? Read about knights and explore the history of jousting on history.co.uk ...

He who drinks a tumbler of London Water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are Men, Women and Children on the face of the Globe. Sydney Smith, Anglican Cleric Imagine the ...

Joseph Bazalgette saved thousands of lives by sorting the sewers. So why’s the ‘Sewer King’ who risked his own health to help others, whose system’s still used by millions today, largely forgotten?

The unlikely escapades of Oliver Cromwell's head Exhumed upon the orders of King Charles II in 1681, Cromwell's corpse was ritually hanged and his embalmed head was put on public display but the story ...

We asked our Facebook fans to let us know which British cities’ histories they’d like to know more about. We received loads of votes, with the top cities being Glasgow, Portsmouth and Liverpool. In ...

When it comes to significant occurrences in modern Catholic history, the World War II prophecy foretold by Our Lady Fatima is particularly noteworthy. The title refers to the Virgin Mary, and came ...

The Air Force wanted a mushroom cloud so large it would be visible on earth.