History is full of the extraordinary. Each week, we'll transport you back in time to witness histor
Viking exploration changed the course of history in the northern hemisphere. As raiders and pirates,
For almost two hundred years, the Knights Templar were one of the most fearsome military forces in t
For thirteen years from 1920, the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic drinks was bann
When five men are caught inside a Washington DC office block in June 1972, it’s noted in police reco
While British women had been requesting the right to vote for decades, in the early 1900s, the Suffr
On the border between the Western world and the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Co
For over six hundred years the Ottoman Empire ruled swathes of the Middle East, North Africa, and So
The Underground Railroad helped up to 100,000 enslaved people to freedom. It was America’s first civ
April 13th, 1970. 200,000 miles from Earth, three astronauts are approaching lunar orbit when they h
Forged by the Great Depression, Bonnie and Clyde became icons of lawlessness, thrilling and shocking
Antarctica, October 1915. 1200 miles from civilisation, Ernest Shackleton watches from the ice as hi
It’s Christmas eve, 1914. On the Western Front, a British soldier peers out across No Man’s Land. A
March 15th, 44BC. Despite ill omens, Julius Caesar approaches the Theatre of Pompey. But the men ins
It’s November 28th, 1809. The Imperial fleet in Tung Chung Bay is aflame. But the crew of Zheng I Sa
Sakkara, Egypt, 2,630BC. A man stands atop a structure of dizzying height as the final block grinds
Despised by the English, mistrusted by the Scottish nobles, and revered by his countrymen: William W
After a bloody battle on September 22nd, 1877, Saigo Takamori and his loyal warriors pause on a hill
One night in November 1605, a man is discovered underneath England’s Houses of Parliament. And he’s
By the time she died in 2005, Rosa Parks was known around the world as an icon of activism. Her act
Cloaked in secrecy, discussed by even the most hardened criminals as a place of terror, US Penitenti
