What is mental overload and why don’t we want it? It’s time to speak up about taking on more than our fair share of thinking, planning and arranging.

With experts lauding its benefits and bloggers, celebrities and even athletes adopting a whole food approach, is it time we all embraced a plant-based diet?

Julian Humphrys explores the Battle of Towton, a brutal clash between the armies of Lancaster and York that saw thousands fight, and die, in howling winds and driving snow.

Pat Kinsella meets an extraordinary unit of military misfits sent on an against-all-odds World War II mission deep behind enemy lines.

The kop it’s a word familiar to all football fans but how many of them know that it takes its name from a steep hill where the British suffered a bloody defeat.

The last of the Stuarts is hardly England’s most famous or successful Queen, but she endured hardship and despair few could imagine

An exploration of the real relationship between rival composers Wolfgang Amadeus Motzart and Antonio Salieri

The real story of gangster Al Capone and his nemesis crime fighter Elliot Ness

The Viking Age stretched from the ninth to the 11th centuries. During this era, the Vikings cast their raiding-and trading nets wide many centuries before Columbus sailed the...

From nation’s sweetheart to public enemy, Emily Brand reveals what it was that led her to the guillotine