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Left: A 3D rendering of Nessie, the famed lake monster of Loch Ness. Right: View of Loch Ness from the bank of Fort Augustus, Scotland.

Has Nessie been found? The true history of the Loch Ness monster
Oliver Cromwell

The unlikely escapades of Oliver Cromwell's head

The Three Greatest Viking battles
The Giza pyramid complex in Egypt

The History of Pyramids
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The Easter Rising: the spark that ignited a nation
Emmeline Pankhurst

The history of International Women's Day
A foggy scene in London

The Day London Vanished

A packet of Pervitin | Image: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pervitinampullen.jpg">(CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>

The drug that fuelled the Nazi Blitzkrieg
Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum by John Martin

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD
A photograph of England flag bunting hanging up outside

The Forgotten Invincible England Team of the 1982 World Cup
The Ludgate Hill area of London during the 'Blitz' in WW2

The decline in the UK's awareness of WW2 facts
A sign reading 'Arbeit macht frei', which translates to 'Work sets you free' on the gates of a German POW Camp

The true story of The Great Escape
Tony Law

The de Havilland Mosquito - the 'wooden wonder'
A photograph of a modern map of Sheffield

The Great Sheffield Flood
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The day Sir Ranulph Fiennes lost his fingers
Battle of Hampton Roads

The greatest naval battles of all time

The Unxplained season 1 part B: episode guide
Knights of the Templar (Convents of Christ) castle in Tomar, Portugal

Top Ten Templar Buildings
WW2 House Live, a HISTORY live event was broadcast on Sunday 8th of October at 3pm.

The Story of the Second World War Experience
A black and white photograph of Anne Frank

How Anne Frank's Diary came to be published
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
The Sobibor camp gate in the spring of 1943

The Sobibor death camp uprising of 1943
A photograph of a crown

The sisters who would be Queen

Denver Airport

Denver airport's weird conspiracy theory
Destroyed graves in an abandoned Jewish cemetery in Krakow, Poland, near the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp

The horrors of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
Eddie Hall

The strongest knight? Eddie Hall tries out Knight fighting
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The Strongest Man in History: myths and legends Edition
Terracotta Army

The Terracotta Army
A photograph of a 'Danger Deep Water' sign in the UK

The UK’s most dangerous rivers
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The Vikings: the original feminists?
The Flag of Wales

The treachery of the Blue Books
Legendary swordsmen were powerful and brave, they were history’s ultimate warriors and the weapons they would wield have become icons of valour.

The World's Most Famous Swords
Is the Zodiac Killer about to be unmasked after all these decades?

The Zodiac Killer Code Cracked
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The Underachievers: Remembering the Great Scottish Team of the 70s and 80s
A John F. Kennedy badge pictured over the Flag of the United States

Timeline of the Kennedys
Meet comedian Tony Law, pictured above hugging his favourite WW2 aircraft.

Tony Law on the de Havilland Mosquito