Gordon Cummins was a seemingly ordinary RAF airman. But amid the darkness of blackout-era London he became one of the city’s ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Bletchley Park’s Research Historian, Dr David Kenyon, reveals how staff reacted to ...

The ancient Romans were pioneers in many aspects of medicine, but their treatments and surgeries were often painful, gruesome, and dangerous by modern standards. Without formal medical regulations, ...

Historian Simon Schama explains how close Britain came to complicity in the Holocaust, and what the bureaucracy of genocide ...

Join us for the first series of History’s Greatest Battles, where we’re heading back to the Roman empire.

A hunger for glory, a sense of destiny, and an ego that knew no limits: The Rest is History’s Dominic Sandbrook explores how ...

In 1774, a British army officer named Robert Newburgh was put on trial in North America. As a captain in the 18th Regiment of Foot, he should have been a respected figure within the British military.

Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima: three names that have gone down in infamy; bywords for the nightmare scenarios that can occur when the production of nuclear power goes disastrously wrong.