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Discover the tragically short life of Hamnet Shakespeare, the boy (potentially) immortalised in his father’s greatest work.
80 years ago, the sky above Hiroshima cracked open. At 8:15am on 6th August 1945, the first atomic bomb used in war detonated ...
With Curse of Skinwalker Ranch season sox on the way, here are the scientific investigators who have made the Sky HISTORY ...
Troy Landry has cemented his reputation as ‘King of the Swamp’. Here’s how the Louisiana native became the lead star of Sky ...
For the thousands of British servicemen captured during the fall of Singapore and Malaya in 1942, VJ Day marked liberation ...
The Last Burma Star pays tribute to the last surviving veterans of the Burma Campaign, who fought alongside British and ...
From the Flip Flap Railway to the Big Dipper, rollercoasters have always carried an element of danger… sometimes to a deadly degree. Read on to learn more.
Did you know that train crashes used to be staged as live entertainment? Here’s how the ‘Crash at Crush’ in 1896 helped to kickstart a decades-long trend.
Join us as Sky HISTORY remembers the 80th anniversary of Nagasaki, the second city struck by a US atomic bomb.
2. The crime against the Oirat Ögedei Khan, son of Genghis Khan, ruled as Khagan-Emperor of the Mongol Empire from 1229 to 1241. Like his father, Ögedei loved war, sending the vast Mongol hordes ...
This Autumn marks the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan officially offered its surrender to mark the end of World War II ...
What are Doubly Thankful Villages? Doubly Thankful Villages are those which suffered no troop deaths in both World War I and World War II.