We’ve all heard of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot – but why did he and his co-conspirators want to blow up Parliament in ...

The novel 'Shogun' has inspired not one but two award-winning series…but the real-life history behind these works of art is ...

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‘In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’ The Allies had hoped their decoy plans might buy them two weeks, seven was unthinkable. Sign up now to ...

From Buddha’s tooth to Muhammad’s beard to anything involving Jesus Christ and his crucifixion, holy relics are highly sought ...

Hitler believed the Soviets to be his natural ideological enemy and intended to conquer the country, enslave or exterminate the ‘subhuman’ native Slavic people.

Ross Kemp travels to New York to explore the UK’s mafia connections. He meets Salvatore ‘Crazy Sal’ Polisi, a 1970s mafia enforcer, who reveals how British bootleggers in the 1920s helped build the ...

On a raid with the army, Ross Kemp‬ discovers the extent of cocaine's prevalence in Colombia. He then meets Gilberto Rodriguez, son of the Cali Cartel’s founder, to learn about their rise to power ...