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The 1st President of the United States was a man of mystery, but did George Washington really have wooden teeth? How much ...

When it comes to interesting figures in the American conspiracy theorist circle, Milton William Cooper was and still is hugely influential. Cooper was a conspiracy theorist, but also an author and ...

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 ...

Historian Megan Coles reveals the bizarre medieval deaths caused by cesspits, assassins, wine barrels and even uncontrollable laughter.

It’s the biggest annual carnival in Europe, attracting around two million revellers from far and wide to London every August. Yet for all the parades, music and food, you might not suspect that the ...

A sword engraved with Templar crosses. An ornate libation vessel hewn from alabaster. An iron box depicting Biblical images. These are some of the tantalising treasures in the possession of Carl ...

The infectious disease of smallpox ran rampant for centuries, killing millions – until an experiment on the eight-year-old ...

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 ...

In a unique historical crime series, Vicky McClure and her historian husband, Jonny Owen, travel the UK exploring historic, culturally significant crimes that have changed the face of modern Britain.

The mystery of the Amber Room During WWII, Adolf Hitler’s Nazis stole some 600,000 pieces of art from across Europe. By the end of the war, billions of pounds worth of artwork had been scattered to ...