What did everyday life look like for the millions of ordinary people living in Tudor England? Historian Ruth Goodman found ...

Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...

Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...

The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive ...

Want to know more about Jane Austen, her novels and the period she lived in? Lauren Good has curated a selection of essential ...

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a grieving nation turned towards spiritualism in the hope of seeing the dead once ...

There have been many examples of pointed hats in history, but it remains unclear how any of them became a must-wear for the ...

Across the patchwork of states that made up the Holy Roman Empire, tens of thousands rose in arms, sacked castles and looted monasteries. For a few months the rebels looked unstoppable. Then, as ...

The Phoenicians founded one of antiquity’s greatest Mediterranean powers. An ambitious and powerful network of seafaring traders along the eastern Mediterranean coast, they built a commercial empire ...

The right arm extended forward with the palm down and fingers together, the so-called Hitler salute, is an instantly recognisable, and reviled, image. It is forevermore associated with Nazi Germany ...