Dr Daniel Cowling, Senior Historian at the National Army Museum, traces the battles that continued long after VJ Day was ...

Discover the truth behind history’s most notorious outlaws as Sean Bean investigates Al Capone, the Krays, and more in ...

How did the real-life rivalry between street gangs the Peaky Blinders and the Birmingham Boys take shape? Sky HISTORY investigates in a new series.

In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...

How rich was Al Capone? We separate Outfit revenue from his take, translate to today’s dollars and bust myths.

It’s now 30 years since Sky HISTORY first burst onto TV screens. How apt, then, that the number 30 has played a major part in quite a few historical ...

Sky HISTORY launched 30 years ago, so what was life like for Brits back then? We sum up the UK’s biggest cultural, sporting and political moments of 1995.

It was on 12 March 1930 that Mahatma Gandhi embarked on an unlikely odyssey. By that point, Gandhi – a London-trained lawyer who had risen to become a passionate campaigner for India’s independence ...

One Small Step For Pac-Man, One Giant Leap For Pac-Man-KindHappy birthday to Pac-Man, who was first released in Japan on this day in 1980. Or should I say ‘Puck Man’ which was the character’s original ...

Who was William Tell? He is famed as a 14th-century huntsman who fired an arrow to shoot an apple from atop his son’s head. You might also recognise the name from the William Tell Overture, a globally ...

Every year during the evening of 31st October, children dress in scary costumes and visit their neighbours declaring ‘trick-or-treat’, all in the hope of filling their little buckets with sugary ...

There was something different about prisoner number 4859. Like many of his fellow prisoners, 4859 had been arrested by the Nazis and slung into a new camp on the outskirts of the town of Oświęcim. So, ...