All About History

Kings & Queens
Throughout history, monarchs have had a huge impact on the world, whether uniting nations or tearing...
Ancient Egypt
In 1922 a magnii cent discovery captured the imagination of the world. As Howard Carter slowly unvei...
All About Ancient Greeks
Few civilisations have had such an impact on the modern world as Ancient Greece. It’s the birthplace...
Ancient Rome
The legacy of the vast empire of ancient Rome is present everywhere around us in the modern world to...
British Royals
The date is 14 October 1066, and the battle field at Hastings lies bloodied, littered with the remai...
Events that Changed the World
The Wall Street Crash, Chernobyl, Martin Luther King Jr’s famous speech – there are some events in h...
EyeWitness
In our Eye Witness series we talk to those who were present for the moments that changed the world....
History's Greatest Battles. Vol. 1
From the earliest days of mankind battles have been used to settle conflicts and as a tool by those...
Historic Explorers
When the Romans printed the first world map 2,000 years ago, little did they know that half of it wa...
Jack the Ripper
For ten weeks during the autumn of 1888, London’s East End was gripped by the terror of history’s mo...
Most Wanted
Crime stories – both real and fictional – have had us gripped for centuries. Here we line up 15 of h...
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for longer than any other British monarch, beating Queen Victoria’s r...
The Titanic
As the [i]Titanic[/i] pulled away from the Harland & Wolff shipyard, Belfast in May 1911, she was th...
All About Tudors
Few royal dynasties have attracted as much hype as the Tudors. Their’s is a tale of murder, adultery...
The World's Worst Disasters
From earthquakes and epidemics, to human errors that have devastated entire countries, disasters hav...
US Presidents
In 1789 George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States and helped to ushe...