Contrary to what classic Westerns might have you believe, many women made their mark in the Old West. Cynthia Ann Parker is ...

Discover the tragically short life of Hamnet Shakespeare, the boy (potentially) immortalised in his father’s greatest work.

For the thousands of British servicemen captured during the fall of Singapore and Malaya in 1942, VJ Day marked liberation ...

The Last Burma Star pays tribute to the last surviving veterans of the Burma Campaign, who fought alongside British and ...

Troy Landry has cemented his reputation as ‘King of the Swamp’. Here’s how the Louisiana native became the lead star of Sky ...

Did you know that train crashes used to be staged as live entertainment? Here’s how the ‘Crash at Crush’ in 1896 helped to kickstart a decades-long trend.

With Curse of Skinwalker Ranch season sox on the way, here are the scientific investigators who have made the Sky HISTORY ...

Join us as Sky HISTORY remembers the 80th anniversary of Nagasaki, the second city struck by a US atomic bomb.

80 years ago, the sky above Hiroshima cracked open. At 8:15am on 6th August 1945, the first atomic bomb used in war detonated ...

From the Flip Flap Railway to the Big Dipper, rollercoasters have always carried an element of danger… sometimes to a deadly degree. Read on to learn more.

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