Historian Simon Schama explains how close Britain came to complicity in the Holocaust, and what the bureaucracy of genocide ...

Join us for the first series of History’s Greatest Battles, where we’re heading back to the Roman empire.

A hunger for glory, a sense of destiny, and an ego that knew no limits: The Rest is History’s Dominic Sandbrook explores how ...

Tariffs and trade wars have hit the headlines in recent months as US president Donald Trump pursues aggressive economic ...

In 1774, a British army officer named Robert Newburgh was put on trial in North America. As a captain in the 18th Regiment of Foot, he should have been a respected figure within the British military.

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.