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A small hare in a meadow next to a basket of Easter eggs

What day is Easter 2023 and why does it change every year?

Popular Culture
Gita and Lale, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, credit: The Sokolov Family.

What The Tattooist of Auschwitz teaches us about the Holocaust

Hitler
Sign for the Elizabeth Line

Mind the Gap: The history of London Underground

British History
The Mall in London adorned with Union Jacks

Why do British monarchs celebrate Jubilees?

Kings and Queens

Read the first chapter of the Librarian of Auschwitz

WW2
The Tattooist of Auschwitz tells the story how Lale and Gita Sokolov fell in love.

The Incredible Story of Love and Survival at Auschwitz

Hitler
A build your own 'Ship in a bottle'

Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter: Win a Ship In A Bottle

Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter
Red Ball and Snooker Player, man play snooker

The 10 Greatest Snooker Players of All Time

Ronnie OSullivans American Hustle

Top Five Dinky Cars

Science and Technology
Cameroon national football team jersey

How Cameroon Beat Maradona and Shocked the World

Sport
Windsor Castle under blue sky

10 little known facts about Windsor Castle

Kings and Queens
Protest of motorcycle clubs. MC Bandidos, Gladiators, Hell's Angels, Coffin Cheaters, Road Pirates, Taurus and others held the protest against the police bias.

Top 6 Notorious Biker Gangs

Outlaw Chronicles Hells Angels
The fictitious Major Martin's naval ID

Operation mincemeat: How a 'drowned' man with faked documents tricked Hitler

Espionage
False colour image of Queen Victoria

How different British monarchs celebrated their Jubilees

Kings and Queens
Riverhunters S3

Rick Edwards on River Hunters S3: 'People like watching us find rubbish'

River Hunters
A score card displaying zeros

Nul Points! - The UK's worst Eurovision entries

Popular Culture
The top half of the Queen's head is visible behind a piece of machinery

Unusual facts about the Queen: Why does she have two birthdays?

Kings and Queens
Queen Victoria in her official Diamond Jubilee photograph

The Grandmother of Europe: Queen Victoria's family ties across the continent

Royal Mob
The Amazon river meandering through the rainforest

The deepest and most dangerous rivers in the world

River Hunters
Ross Kemp

Win a £100 Amazon gift card with Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter

Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter
A replica of the Back to the Future DeLorean is shown at the Cars of the Hollywood Screen car show.

Top 10 Movie Cars of All Time

Big Easy Motors
Glacier National Park, Montana

10 Movies About Surviving Alone

Alone
Banner for Eurovision 2022 in Turin

The weird and wonderful history of the Eurovision Song Contest

Popular Culture
Ross Kemp talks to Sky HISTORY in this exclusive video

Ross Kemp reveals fascinating behind the scenes stories from his new series

Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter
Ross Kemp

The SS James Eagan Layne dive

Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter
The Queen's carriage procession makes its way to Buckingham Palace during the Jubilee on June 5, 2012

God save the Queen: A history of British Jubilees

Kings and Queens
Laurence Fishburne

What to watch on HISTORY Play in May?

HISTORY Play
Drone shot of the River Severn winding through the Bristol countryside

The 10 longest rivers in the UK

River Hunters
Rick and Marty Lagina star in The Curse Of Oak Island

HISTORY Play: Highlights

HISTORY Play
Large queue of people outside a shop serving free soup, coffee and doughnuts during the Great Depression.

Six decades worse than the 2020s

Disasters
Tsar Nicolas II (left) and George V (right) were first cousins

The Kaiser, the Tsar and King George V - cousins at war in WW1

WW1
Portrait of Prince Albert by John Partridge

The German kings and queens of England

Al Murray Why Does Everyone Hate the English
HMS Belfast museum ship on the River Thames

The British Navy's mightiest warships to ever do battle

Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter
Rendering of the Titanic on the ocean next to a photo of J. Bruce Ismay, president of the White Star Line

The Titanic's biggest heroes and worst villains

Disasters
A rusty abandoned shipwreck in the sea

There are 40,000 shipwrecks around the UK, here are the most fascinating

Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter
RMS Lusitania torpedoed by a German submarine

The deadliest shipwrecks in history

Ross Kemp: Shipwreck Treasure Hunter