All Articles

Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake: Hero or Villain?
Margaret Beaufort
The kingmaker Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor dynasty
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What if Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happened?

WW2
Torii, Nagasaki, Japan
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the aftermath

WW2
Paul Tibbets infront of the Enola Gay
Paul Tibbets: The pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

WW2
A dummy tank
Operation Dissimulation: WW2's biggest deceptions and duplicities

WW2
Spoon carving
60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with spoon carver Jojo Wood

Craft
Megan Hune
'It'd be very easy to just vanish': Megan Hine on hunting for the lost city of Akakor

Curse of Lost Amazon Gold
Adam Jenkins
60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with archery instructor Adam Jenkins

Craft
Leather worker Hamish Lamley
60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with leather worker Hamish Lamley

Craft
Lettice Curtis, Jenny Broad, Wendy Sale Barker, Gabrielle Patterson and Pauline Gower of the Air Transport Auxilary in 1942 | Public Domain | Wikimedia
The women of the Battle of Britain

Women's history
Thor's Fight with the Giants
Seven of the most important gods and goddesses in Norse mythology

Vikings
Bats
Project X-ray: America's secret WW2 plan to drop bat bombs on Japan
The Spanish Armada and King Phillip II
What if the Spanish Armada had succeeded?

Tudor History
9 Famous Olympic Cheaters

Sport
Alida Lopes and her classmates
The moving true story of a Jewish girl and her friends in occupied Amsterdam

The Holocaust
1899 underwater photo of oceanographer Emil Racoviță (left), Edmond Halley's diving bell (right)
A brief history of diving

Sport
The executioner Franz Schmidt executing Hans Fröschel
Hang 'em High: 7 of history's most famous executioners
A helmet once owned by Heinrich Himmler
The Nazi hunt for holy treasure from Thor's Hammer to the Holy Grail

Lost Relic Hunters
KIng William
Surprising facts about England's lesser-known kings and queens

Kings and Queens
Germaine Delapierre
The 1921 Women's Olympiad: 100 years of women's sport

Women's history
The Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada: 5 facts about Tudor England's biggest naval victory

British History
60 years of space travel: From Yuri Gagarin to the Mars Rover

Science and Technology
'Sex: Lessons From History' - Dr Fern Riddell
'We’re all sex-obsessed': Fern Riddell on her new book

Not What You Thought You Knew
History of Liverpool

Popular Culture
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe: The tennis star who broke boundaries on and off the court

Sport
The fictitious Major Martin's naval ID
Operation Mincemeat

Espionage
How America nearly nuked the moon

Science and Technology
Subscribe to the Sky HISTORY weekly newsletter
Subscribe to our newsletter
Navajo Yebichai dancers
Skinwalkers and other Native American myths and legends
8 Famous Botched Executions

Medieval History
Ouch! 8 of the most brutal execution methods from the ancient world

Ancient History
Margaret Pole
That takes guts: 7 gory execution methods from Tudor England
Les Vainqueurs De La Bastille Devant L’hôtel De Ville, Le 14 Juillet 1789 (1830-1838)
is July the busiest month for declaring independence?

Modern History
Al Murray: Why Do the Brits Win Every War?
Brand new series: 'Al Murray: Why Do the Brits Win Every War?' Coming this autumn 2021

Military History
Technology Used in Large-scale Treasure Hunts

The Curse of Oak Island