Day drama Pressure, Kerry Condon stars as Kay Summersby, US General Dwight D Eisenhower’s aide and driver. In the film she ...
On 1 March 1999, Breitling Orbiter 3 – piloted by Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones – took off from Châteaux d’Oex in ...
The destruction of Pompeii is one of antiquity’s most famous disasters, but its exact date remains fiercely debated. From ...
From the Black Death to the French Revolution, music has long been affected by the upheavals of history. Rebecca Franks ...
Leading the cast in D-Day drama Pressure, Andrew Scott stars as James Stagg. Among the meteorologists advising Dwight D Eisenhower on whether to launch Operation Overlord, Stagg’s voice is the most ...
One of the medieval world’s greatest surviving treasures will go on display in London in September 2026. David Musgrove ...
British museums still hold hundreds of precious Asante treasures looted during 19th century colonial wars. Historian Barnaby ...
In this four-part HistoryExtra series, Professor Islam Issa explores the life and times of one of the ancient world's most ...
King Henry VIII and Thomas More, his Lord Chancellor and right-hand man from 1529 to 1532, forged a close, tumultuous, and ultimately fatal relationship. As well as being responsible for the ...
Aside from being the rumoured “lover of the Russian queen” featured in Boney M’s song, Rasputin was an incredibly influential and controversial figure at the Russian royal court until his death in ...
Anthony Maras’ Second World War movie Pressure – adapted for the screen from David Haig’s hit play – takes us into the heart of a military storm. We join the action in late spring 1944 at Southwick ...
The embodiment of “oversexed, overpaid and over here”, American meteorologist Irving P Krick – certainly as portrayed in D-Day drama Pressure – knows how to command a room. It’s a useful skill but, as ...
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