The tragic and shocking story of the notorious Magdalene Laundries, a shameful system, created by the Irish State but supported by all strata of Irish society, which enslaved more than ten thousand women between 1922 and 1996.

A collection of numerous burlesque acts from the 1950s, including strippers, and cult character Bett...

In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitatio...

Dedicated to the development of the oil industry of Soviet Azerbaijan in the background of the first...

Struggling against the totalitarian regime of occupied Soviet Latvia, a talented young doctor is str...

A new insight into the Irish origins of Ice-hockey in Canada.

During the Nuremberg Trials, the victors of the Second World War judge those responsible for the Thi...

In 1519, Portuguese explorer Fernand de Magellan and his men embarked on an expedition that would fo...

In the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced an unprecedented artistic explosion: painters such ...

Sportswear dominates everyday street wear; but so does haute couture: what began a hundred years ago...

An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As t...

A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

Fascinating new translations and fresh research are transforming the myth of Atlantis from the realm...

The first transatlantic communications cable, traversing the ocean floor from Valentia Island, Count...

Somewhere between Sri Lanka and the island of New Guinea, in the upper reaches of the Amazonia jungl...

One of the most important and exciting historical research of all time, the study of the DNA of the ...

The story of barbaric murders committed in the midst of a rural community in Joyce Country, on the b...

What started as a simple tomb became over a 2,000 years history the universal seat of Christendom an...