Step into Essex’s harrowing past as Rylan Clark and Alice Roberts uncover the truth behind historic witch trials in Witches ...

The late teenager Carlo Acutis has been hailed as the first millennial saint. However, believers even younger have also been ...

Witchfinder General’ Matthew Hopkins’ horrific crusade against innocent women started in Manningtree in 1647, as Sky ...

Tyrants, war, or just coincidence? Nostradamus’s verses are being tied to 2026 — but do they really foretell the future?

Christmas makes no sense, and we’re not just talking about that time David Bowie and Bing Crosby collaborated on a festive sing-along. No: the basic facts of the annual ritual just seem to defy logic ...

The universe is full of coded secrets – in its flora and fauna, its solar systems, in its medicine, its mathematics, its criminal behaviour and its manufacturing. Man-made enigmas hiding top-secret ...

Elsewhere in the city, the Nazis operated a policy of collective responsibility, which meant any act of resistance was punished by the deaths of not only those who had been involved but of the ...

The Spring or Vernal Equinox has been celebrated by a myriad of pagan faiths at least as far back as the Neolithic era. Unlike solstices which celebrate the longest day or night, equinoxes mark the ...

This season on Alone, participants will face the most punishing environment yet: The Arctic. Scattered around Canada’s Great Slave Lake—the deepest lake in North America– the survivalists will endure ...

One Small Step For Pac-Man, One Giant Leap For Pac-Man-KindHappy birthday to Pac-Man, who was first released in Japan on this day in 1980. Or should I say ‘Puck Man’ which was the character’s original ...

Whether joining your local community for a Maypole dance on the local green or finally getting around to that long-overdue DIY project, there’s no right or wrong way to observe the May Day bank ...

Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman tells the stories of the most daring prison breaks in history and the manhunts that immediately followed. The show starts Tuesday, 1st October at 10pm on Sky History.