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Roger Tichborne (left) The man claiming to be him (right) The Tichborne Claimant case has everything you’d want from a Victorian...

In the realm of Hollywood, tales of family history often carry a mystique of their own. One such story revolves around the father of...

Belgium may not be the first European country that most people think of when they hear the words “blood-soaked colonial tyranny.”...

A painting like this is bound to draw anyone in, and also arouse some questions in regard to it's back story. What makes it even more...

Being gay and black in the deep south during the 1950s may sound like a recipe for disaster, but not so much for Little Richard....

Behold a curious relic from the 1890s: a photo album without a title but brimming with an unexpected treasure trove of self-defence...

Eva Perón, affectionately known as Evita, remains one of Argentina’s most iconic and controversial figures. As the First Lady of...

Salvador Dalí was never one to shy away from pushing boundaries. Whether it was his surrealist paintings, sculptures, photography, films,...

In the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, another American icon faced a tragic incident, albeit with a...

Police Constable Charles Shelton from the Metropolitan Police made his way to 40 Kent Street during the early hours of Thursday, November...

Officially known as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army, Unit 731 was a covert biological and...

On the night of 14th November 1959, in the peaceful town of Holcomb, Kansas, everything seemed ordinary at the Clutter family’s...

Imagine this: it’s a crisp Sunday morning in late 1973, and the usually bustling streets of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague are...

Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt was born in 1823 in Waterloo, Maryland. Raised in a devout Catholic family, she married John Harrison...

Mata Hari was born on August 7, 1876 as Margaretha “Gretha” Geertruida Zelle in the Netherlands. Since her conviction as a double agent...

Six and a half months before Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland, an unsettling event took place in New York City’s Madison Square Garden...

Charles Osborne holds a singularly unique place in medical history as the man who hiccuped for an astonishing 68 years. His extraordinary...

Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili held the unenviable distinction of being Joseph Stalin's eldest son. Born to Stalin's first wife, Kato...

Throughout history, certain figures stand as vivid reminders of an era characterised by excess and liberation. Anita Berber, an...

When we conjure up images of crime gangs, our minds often drift to Italian mobsters or Japanese Yakuza members, maybe Mexican or...

The purchase of Stonehenge by Sir Cecil Chubb in 1915 marks a significant episode in the preservation of British heritage. Let's have a...

Some people juggle, some perform card tricks, and then there was Alfred Langevin—who could smoke a pipe through his eyes. A Man of Unique...

Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure,...

In December 1961, Sam Leach secured a series of performances for his musician friends from Liverpool at the Palais Ballroom in Aldershot,...