Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

A peace treaty ended the Mexican–American War in February 1848 and officially left California as new American territory.

Cats might have been sacred in ancient Egypt, but they were far from cherished pets. Discover why our assumptions about their ...

After many centuries, the Bayeux Tapestry is returning to Britain in 2026. But as the loan draws closer, new information ...

Did Octavian, later known as the Roman emperor Augustus, have an affair with Julius Caesar? That’s precisely what Mark Antony ...

The struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism came to a head in England when Maria of Modena gave birth to an heir with ...

What do the crimes that women were charged with in a post-medieval Scotland reveal about the lives they lived?

Extravagant clothes and celebrity culture defined Georgian Britain. Alice examines how fashion, fame and vanity became irresistible targets for caricature. Grotesque, imaginative and influential, ...

To modern eyes, there’s no question; no reasonable grounds for equivocation. The only option is to tell someone. But in medieval England, finding a dead body was a more fraught – and risky – incident.

When did you first hear about Sophie Scholl? While I was doing research for my Nazi-era novels about a fictional German police detective. I came across the White Rose resistance movement, and that led ...