Thousands of innocent women were sentenced to death as the ‘witch craze’ swept across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. The southeast England county of Essex alone was responsible for many of the ...

Celebrations held at the end of October may have changed vastly from the original pagan feasts of Samhain, but the donning of disguises has remained over hundreds if not thousands of years. As fashion ...

How rich was Al Capone? We separate Outfit revenue from his take, translate to today’s dollars and bust myths.

Cleopatra’s dramatic life and death were so intense it verges on fiction, something that was noticed by literary giant William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra) and George Bernard Shaw (Caesar and ...

In 1945, after three long years of war, the fight between the Allied forces and Japan over Burma finally ended. Japan was ...