One method you likely haven’t tried is putting a cold apple on your head. But, centuries ago, the Tudors and other people of ...

In theory, putting down the rebels of the First Jewish Revolt should have been easy for the mighty Roman empire. But ...

Edmund Ironside was an ill-fated king during a violent and turbulent time in the history of the Anglo-Saxons. But is the ...

But space travel is also a human endeavour. In the heavens as on Earth, that means it throws up stories that can be bizarre, ...

Have you ever sat around a dinner table or in a pub and rubbed your finger along the rim of a glass to make that eerie ...

When you think about the driving forces that contributed to progress in medieval Britain, you might think about the likes of ...

Before he was the monarch with six wives – two of whom he had beheaded – Henry VIII was a Tudor adonis: attractive and active ...

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As tensions build between the US and its long-term allies, historian Sam Edwards examines how the international military ...

In the winter of 1386, a French noblewoman by the name of Marguerite de Carrouges found herself at the centre of a criminal case that electrified Paris, captivated the king and culminated in blood ...