Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Boleyn, who in 1536 became the first queen in British history to be executed.

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...

1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...

The pop-inspired musical brings the six wives of Henry VIII right into the 21st century with infecti...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Dia...

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...