The historians behind World War II with Tom Hanks have written some brilliant books. Here's what to read next if the series ...

To celebrate World War II with Tom Hanks on Sky HISTORY, test your knowledge of the battles, leaders and human stories that ...

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One of the differences between the socially cohesive society of the Tudors and fragmented modern society is that all classes used to go to the bear-baiting as well as the theatre, to a court ceremony ...

His portrait covered buildings all over Iraq as a reminder of his powerful grip. But Saddam Hussein was eventually made to pay for his crimes against humanity. Saddam Hussein has the dubious ...

Big enough to bail out the US, buy in a President & build the first billion dollar company. Meet JP Morgan. His millionaire father, Junius, made his fortune by investing other people’s money and ...

Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale were not the pioneers of the American department store concept, they simply took the model and did it bigger. The brothers began with a Ladies Notion Shop and then opened ...

Matthew Pinsent CBE – Oxford. Won in 1990 and 1991 and was the losing President in 1993. The Winklevoss twins – Oxford 2010 losing team. They are better known as the disputed joint founders of ...

The British monarchy has many deep-rooted German links. The first two Hanoverian monarchs — George I and George II — grew up in German lands. George III and Queen Victoria had German-born spouses. The ...

The strawberries are ripe, the cream is chilled and the whites have just finished a spin cycle, which can only mean one thing: Wimbledon is here. The best place to take in the action, of course, is ...

RMS Titanic was one of three Olympic-class ocean liners built between 1908 and 1915. Her sister ships were RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic. While the sinking of Titanic made her the most famous ship in ...

A WWII series binge is a bit like packing for a long weekend…you think you’re just grabbing the essentials, and then somehow you’ve got five hours of archive footage, a miniseries about paratroopers ...