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The wreck of the Marchioness pleasure boat beached on the bank of the Thames

Tragedy on the Thames: The Marchioness disaster
Sign outside Gander International Airport on a snowy day

Come From Away: The true story behind the musical based on 9/11
A black-and-white photograph of a young John F. Kennedy

10 free episodes you can watch on HISTORY Play in August 2024
A natural hill in Bosnia that appears to be in the shape of a pyramid

Are there man-made pyramids in the Bosnian mountains?
Apollo 13 crew members with their hands on a Lunar Globe

Apollo 13: A survival mission against the odds
The Cutty Sark museum in Greenwich, London

10 facts about the Cutty Sark
Firefighters tackle a blaze in London after a bombing raid

6 deadliest raids from the Blitz
Jesse Owens salutes while standing on top of the podium after winning gold in the long jump at the 1936 Olympics. Luz Long (R) stands in the second position while giving the Nazi salute.

How Jesse Owens defied Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Olympics
A stone carving of Cyrus the Great's soldiers

The 5 largest empires from history
Sellafield nuclear power station

The Windscale Fire: Britain's worst nuclear disaster in history
A young Edward VIII

6 monarchs who abdicated
Double-page spread inside a newspaper showing pictures from the concert

Live Aid: The day music changed the world
Richard Nixon speaking on the telephone in the Oval Office

6 shocking controversies involving President Nixon
The Liberty Bell on display in Philadelphia. A prominent crack in the bell is visible

Debunking famous myths about the Declaration of Independence
Rishi Sunak waves outside 10 Downing Street

The 9 shortest-serving UK Prime Ministers in modern history
Close-up of 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz' novel in the garden on a beautiful day

The true story behind 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz'
Black and white photograph of men grasping the bars of a prison cell

The true story of Billy Hayes' escape from Turkish prison
Gary Drayton shows the Lagina brothers a find

10 free episodes you can watch on HISTORY Play in July 2024
Sir Keir Starmer speaks at the Labour Party Conference in October 2023 while standing at a podium that says, 'Britain's Future'

7 facts about Sir Keir Starmer
A shaven headed Viking with a beard with black warpaint screams

11 facts about legendary viking warrior Ragnar Lothbrok
Charles Richardson mugshot

9 most dangerous British crime gangs
Kriss Herbert-Noble standing at a presenting desk in the Gaydio studio

'We will always represent the entire LGBTQ+ community': Interview with Gaydio's Kriss Herbert-Noble
A colourised image of John Snow

The 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
US flags next to victims' names at the Ground Zero memorial

Science vs parapsychology: A closer look at 9/11 premonitions

Ballet dancers on stage performing 'Swan Lake'

Swan Lake's link to political turmoil in the Soviet Union
Cast members of 'The Windrush Warriors' pose as if they're ready for a fight

'It's a rallying call for all groups of people': Interview with the director of 'The Windrush Warriors'
An atomic bomb test detonation on the Marshall Islands in 1946

5 accidental consequences of the US nuclear bomb tests
Railway track leading up to the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp

The greatest POW escapes from World War II
Portrait of Henry VIII

The Tudors on screen: Television and film dramas about the Tudor dynasty
A photograph showing two tugs moored alongside the Townsend-Thoresen ferry 'Herald of Free Enterprise' which capsized on the 6th March 1987

Zeebrugge ferry disaster: An entirely avoidable catastrophe
A satellite orbiting Earth

10 free episodes you can watch on HISTORY Play in June 2024
The wreckage of two catwalks scattered through the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel on Sunday 19th July 1981, after a collapse two days earlier

Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: America's most devastating engineering disaster
Harold Holt (L) talks to Lyndon B. Johnson (R) in the White House Oval Office

Harold Holt: The Prime Minister who disappeared  
An aerial shot of Ground Zero on 23rd September 2021

How did a shipwreck end up beneath Ground Zero?
U.S. Troops land at Normandy on D-Day on the 6th June 1944

The 80th anniversary of D-Day: Remembering the Normandy Landings
A photograph from the 9th July 1986 showing a warning sign related to the Porton Down Anthrax Trials on Gruinard Island

Gruinard Island: Scotland’s 'Anthrax Island'