Fans of Sky HISTORY’s Vikings will be no strangers to Ivar the Boneless, the fierce and fearsome warrior. Ivar might be a fan favourite on screen, but what do we know about the real-life Viking behind ...

Oliver Cromwell was born into one of the wealthiest and most influential families in East Anglia. Educated at grammar school and at Cambridge University, he became a minor landowner. Cromwell's father ...

She was a working-class girl from Lancashire who became an internationally feted sporting talent. Hailed as a prodigy on the pitch, she defied convention in both her personal and professional life.

When the UK declared war on Nazi Germany in 1939, British citizens knew that their day-to-day lives would change dramatically. At the same time, this kind of shift wasn’t entirely unprecedented. The ...

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 ...