For better or (mostly) worse, Jiang Qing left her mark on the 20th century.Even before she was married to Chairman... more

When the music hall dancer, Belle Ellmore, disappeared in January 1910, it was her performing colleagues who raised the alarm.Her... more

Nadezhda Alliluyeva was born into a revolutionary family, but was it always her fate to marry Joseph Stalin?She was independent,... more

In this episode, we're well and truly going down a rabbit hole. To unpick the controversies surrounding the author of... more

What was life like as Adolf Hitler's other half?Although their marriage came (very) late in their lives, Eva Braun was... more

Travel back to post-WW1 London, when sex, drugs and music was exploding in Soho... causing a national moral panic.The drugs... more

What was life like to be married to Genghis Khan?In this new limited series, Real Wives of Dictators, we're finding... more

When we think about Greek and Roman beauty, we think of marble statues of huge men with tiny...feet.But what did... more

Michelangelo made religion sexy.That may not have been his initial aim, of course, but the way he portrayed the human... more

When and why did Soho become a hedonistic hotspot, the home of sex, drugs and music?Kate is Betwixt the Sheets... more