Charles Goodyear was determined to eradicate these drawbacks of rubber. Through a long process of trial and error, he mixed ...

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This Autumn marks the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan officially offered its surrender to mark the end of World War II ...

While VE Day might be more famous in the UK and Europe, VJ Day marks the actual end of WWII. Learn more about this historic ...

The liberation of Hong Kong is an often overlooked World War II event caused by Japan's surrender. Read on to find out more.

One evening in August 1956, luminous, fast-paced UFOs were spotted in eastern England skies. Is there a rational explanation ...

Hollywood legend J Carrol Naish played the eponymous warrior in the 1954 film Sitting Bull. What does it get right and wrong ...

In the 1890s, horse-drawn transport led waste to build up heavily in major cities. A new Sky HISTORY series looks at how the ...

What does Nostradamus predict for 2025? Nostradamus has ostensibly been on the money about a large number of huge historical events… could his streak continue in 2025?

Ross Kemp dives for British historyIn Ross Kemp: Deep Sea Treasure Hunter our host travels further around the world to dive even deeper on shipwrecks of major historical importance. The new series ...

The train carriage where two armistices were signed Signing in the same railway carriage the Germans had surrendered in 1918 was the ultimate humiliation. Hitler had meant it to be so.