In February 1942, as the Blitz continued to batter Britain, London’s streets were plunged into darkness every night under government-enforced blackouts. These conditions, designed to shield the city ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Bletchley Park’s Research Historian, Dr David Kenyon, reveals how staff reacted to the momentous occasion all those years ago ...

In 1945, Sidney Bernstein was given the job of making a film from the raw footage taken by British soldiers at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He turned to Alfred Hitchcock for help. Martin ...

The ancient Romans were pioneers in many aspects of medicine, but their treatments and surgeries were often painful, gruesome, and dangerous by modern standards. Without formal medical regulations, ...

The Illuminati is a name given to both a real secret society and a fictitious one. The latter has fuelled conspiracy theories for years, described as a secretive and mysterious worldwide organisation ...

Historian Simon Schama explains how close Britain came to complicity in the Holocaust, and what the bureaucracy of genocide ...

Join us for the first series of History’s Greatest Battles, where we’re heading back to the Roman empire.

A hunger for glory, a sense of destiny, and an ego that knew no limits: The Rest is History’s Dominic Sandbrook explores how ...