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Nehru and Gandhi both played starring roles as India broke away from British control in the 1940s. What made relations between the two men so dynamic?

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A new film, By Any Means, portrays the 1966 murder of Vernon Dahmer. How did the activist promote black voting rights, and why did he pay with his life?

The Battle of the Nile foiled Napoleon's Egyptian campaign – and led Britain to the Rosetta Stone. Here's how a naval battle ...

You’ve seen antiques expert Jon Szalay on American Pickers, but what is his background? How did he make his name as a ‘picker’ on the Sky HISTORY series?

Winston Churchill’s political career was far from over after World War II. How did his peacetime premiership in the 1950s ...

The plans for D-Day were a closely guarded secret. So, why did codenames related to the wartime operation start popping up in ...

In 1938, Joe Louis and Max Schmeling fought as symbols of Nazism and democracy. Here's the surprising friendship that ...

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Even more fascinating is the fact that the patron saint of England is thought to have been born in Turkey, to a Palestinian mother. Not only that, but his myth is also intimately connected with ...

Britain's Greatest Obsessions follows a host of top celebrities as they explore uniquely British preoccupations and passions in an attempt to find out what makes the British tick. In the second ...