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

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 ...

What’s the weirdest job you’ve ever had? It probably wouldn’t compare to these oddities, including some highlighted by Henry ...

This Autumn marks the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan officially offered its surrender to mark the end of World War II ...

While VE Day might be more famous in the UK and Europe, VJ Day marks the actual end of WWII. Learn more about this historic ...

Mystery Season returns to Sky HISTORY with a packed schedule of brand-new programmes exploring some of the world's greatest, most enduring mysteries.

In the 1890s, horse-drawn transport led waste to build up heavily in major cities. A new Sky HISTORY series looks at how the ...

One evening in August 1956, luminous, fast-paced UFOs were spotted in eastern England skies. Is there a rational explanation ...

Hollywood legend J Carrol Naish played the eponymous warrior in the 1954 film Sitting Bull. What does it get right and wrong ...

The anti-drug rhetoric that Hitler and his party had spouted to aid their rise to power in the early 30s was based entirely on hypocrisy. The Nazi’s had treated drug addicts as criminals and flaunted ...

The English Civil War, with its violent clashes between Roundheads and Cavaliers, is a much-mythologised chapter in British history. Yet it was actually part of a larger arc of events known as the ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD Never in their darkest nightmares could the 15,000 citizens of Pompeii predict the cruel hand that fate was about to deal their beloved city that day.