The Last Burma Star pays tribute to the last surviving veterans of the Burma Campaign, who fought alongside British and Commonwealth forces ...

What are Doubly Thankful Villages? Doubly Thankful Villages are those which suffered no troop deaths in both World War I and World War II.

The El Dorado of the sea On 23 September, 1641, an English galleon named the Merchant Royal, loaded with gold and silver, sank off the coast of Cornwall. The wreck remains lost to this day. Within her ...

Troy Landry has cemented his reputation as ‘King of the Swamp’. Here’s how the Louisiana native became the lead star of Sky ...

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 ...

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.

With Curse of Skinwalker Ranch season sox on the way, here are the scientific investigators who have made the Sky HISTORY reality show a hit ...

Join us as Sky HISTORY remembers the 80th anniversary of Nagasaki, the second city struck by a US atomic bomb.

80 years ago, the sky above Hiroshima cracked open. At 8:15am on 6th August 1945, the first atomic bomb used in war detonated ...

In the 1890s, horse-drawn transport led waste to build up heavily in major cities. A new Sky HISTORY series looks at how the crisis was unexpectedly resolved.

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.

Charles Goodyear was determined to eradicate these drawbacks of rubber. Through a long process of trial and error, he mixed ...