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Portrait of Puyi

The Last Emperor: The final ruler of China's Qing dynasty

Unidentified: episodes
A Tudor cottage in Warwickshire, England

The people of Tudor England

The Knights of St Lazarus

Tributes to Dan Blankenship
Blackbeard

The rise and fall of Blackbeard
Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland

The Incredible Story of Love and Survival at Auschwitz
The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover, 1540 the vessels depicted in the painting are decorated with wooden panels similar to those of the Mary Rose

The Mary Rose: Tudor battleship
The Sky HISTORY brand logo

The destruction of Warsaw: the Nazi plan to destroy a city
Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, sick with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston: Wikipedia

The forgotten agony - the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-19
The Vatican City, a city-state surrounded by Rome, Italy

The day the Vatican was bombed

The French hate us more than the Germans

The Fall of the Knights Templar

Battle of Falklands 1914, William Lionel Wyllie,

The First Battle of the Falkland Islands: 1914
Crazy Horse as depicted in Robert Redford's The West

The Death of Crazy Horse
Flag of Democratic Republic of the Congo in front of blue sky

The dark story of Zaire's 9-0 defeat in the 1974 World Cup
A photo of Dr Giovanni Borromeo and the hospital Fatebenefratelli where he practised

How a fake disease saved Italian Jews from the Nazis
A photograph of an old Soviet Union passport

Stalin’s daughter: the Cold War’s most famous defector
Engraving of a plague doctor

Pandemics that horrified humanity

Storage Wars Cast Net Worth

Read the first chapter of the Librarian of Auschwitz
Who better to navigate us through the South Pacific than Sam Neill?

Sam Neill: a personal endeavour

River Hunters S1: Episodes
People sitting at a desk with microphones

Are we returning to the populism of the 1930s?
A stock image of a satellite in space

Technology Used in Large-scale Treasure Hunts
Joseph Meek

Remembering Joseph Meek: The original Mountain Man
An aerial photograph of the Giza pyramid complex in Egypt

Reimagining the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

A photograph of Remembrance poppies on wooden crosses

Remembrance Sunday 2017

Templar Training
German artillery at Stalingrad in 1942

The Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of Waterloo
Sketch of the Zodiac killer

The Zodiac Killer The biggest unsolved crime in American History

Short Filmmaker of the Year Award: Expert Advice

The Curse of Oak Island – season six finds and theories
The Compiègne wagon

The train carriage where two armistices were signed
William Hogarth's painting, 'An Election Entertainment'

The Calendar Riots of 1752: When Britain lost 11 days