Six children raised as symbols of Nazi family life were murdered by their parents in Hitler’s bunker in May 1945. This article explores who the Goebbels children were, how they lived inside propaganda, and how ideology ultimately destroyed them.

A smiling polar bear posed with soldiers and children in wartime Germany. Made by Steiff to promote Fanta during the Second World War, the costume reveals how normality was staged through advertising, even as violence and persecution shaped daily life.

On 30th January, 1649, England executed its own king. The death of Charles I was the result of civil war, political failure, and an unshakeable belief in divine rule. This is how a monarchy fell on a winter’s afternoon in Whitehall.

Claudine Longet, the singer convicted of killing Olympic skier Spider Sabich in 1976, has died at 84. Here's the full story behind one of Hollywood's strangest trials.

In 1953, newlyweds René Groebli and Rita Dürmüller wandered Paris with a camera. Their honeymoon photographs captured love, movement, and everyday life in a city recovering from war, creating one of the most intimate photographic records of post war Paris.

Once upon a time, being a rock star meant you could pretty much do whatever you fancied. Smash up a hotel room? No problem. Drink like a sailor, smoke like a chimney, snort like a vacuum cleaner? All part of the job description. But times have changed. These days, throw a telly out of a hotel window and it’s not just the manager giving you grief – it’s someone from housekeeping live-tweeting it with the hashtag #RockStarOrJustJerk before TMZ has even sent a camera crew. The a

J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson dined together, holidayed together, and were buried yards apart. They never defined their relationship, but Washington treated them as a couple for decades. Their story shows how uneasy modern labels can be when applied to the past.

In April 1981, Brixton became the centre of one of Britain’s most significant episodes of civil unrest. This in depth account explores how long standing racial tension, economic decline, policing tactics and the aftermath of the New Cross fire combined to push a community to breaking point, and how the riots reshaped modern British policing and race relations.

On 27th January, 1945, Soviet troops entered Auschwitz Birkenau during their advance west. What they found was not victory, but silence, survivors, and evidence of industrial murder. Liberation marked the beginning of understanding, not the end of suffering.

Before smartphones and social media, Homer Sykes quietly photographed everyday Britain. Weddings, village events, and ordinary gatherings from 1968 to 1983 now form The Way We Were, an unforced record of how people lived and met.

On 26th January, 1966, three siblings left home for Glenelg Beach and never returned. The disappearance of the Beaumont children became Australia’s most haunting cold case and quietly changed how a nation thought about childhood safety forever.

While Al Capone ruled Chicago, his eldest brother rode the Midwest arresting bootleggers in a ten gallon hat. Richard ‘Two Gun’ Hart was a war hero, Prohibition agent, and master of reinvention on the American frontier.

A detailed historical examination of Caligula’s reign exploring cruelty humiliation religion spectacle and power. Separating hostile myth from evidence to understand how Rome created its most infamous emperor.

Working in Hamburg’s St Pauli district, tattooist Herbert Hoffmann documented sailors, labourers, and ageing tattoos, creating a rare social record of postwar port life.

In 1908, New York briefly banned women from smoking in public. When Katie Mulcahey lit a cigarette anyway, her arrest exposed the absurdity of the law and helped bring it down within weeks. A small act that revealed bigger truths.

A true Wild West story. Big Nose George was lynched in 1881, and parts of his body were turned into shoes, skull artefacts, and medical specimens. His legacy still raises questions in Wyoming today.

Before Hollywood remade her, Hedy Lamarr stunned Europe in Ecstasy (1933), a film that quietly rewrote how cinema showed desire, marriage and female agency. A story of scandal, censorship and a legacy far richer than its reputation.

Joseph Colombo was not a typical Mafia boss. He led a crime family, founded a civil rights movement, confronted the FBI and was shot in front of thousands at his own rally. A detailed look at one of organised crime’s strangest figures.

Wes Anderson has cited Jacques Henri Lartigue as an influence. From Rushmore to Zissou, this article explores photography, motion, and private worlds.

The African Choir toured Britain between 1891 and 1893, performing hymns and African songs for Victorian audiences. Behind the concerts were teachers, clerks, and activists navigating empire, education, and survival.

In 1876 chunks of raw meat fell from the sky in rural Kentucky. Eyewitnesses panicked scientists investigated and the explanation turned out to be stranger and more ordinary than expected. The Kentucky Meat Shower explained.

In 1908 an unidentified drifter reportedly died after eating bookbinding paste in Goldfield Nevada. Buried with a blunt epitaph his grave remains one of the town’s strangest and most debated stories.

Where do today’s mixologists really get their ideas. From 1920s hangover cures to swinging sixties Pernod obsessions, these digitised cocktail books reveal that modern bar culture has very deep roots indeed.