Before picket lines and unionisation, ancient Egyptian artisans learned that collectively withdrawing labour could force even ...

With conflicting advice and endless new trends, it can feel hard to keep up with the modern health and wellness space. But ...

As well as creating new regulations on faith, Henry VIII’s 16th-century government also decided which kinds of knowledge were ...

Hitler’s U-boats were a feared component of his naval strategy during the Second World War. But what was life aboard these ...

Before the Cold War hardened into coups and counterinsurgency, the United States backed reformist governments across Latin ...

Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...

Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...

Andrew Roberts: "If we topple Nelson, what do we do about the pyramids, built at least in part by slave labour?" Although it is completely illogical, ahistorical and unfair to natural justice to judge ...

In 1066, as everybody knows, the Normans invaded England. That most engaging of all medieval sources, the Bayeux Tapestry, shows them landing their horses at Pevensey in Sussex and racing to occupy ...

So, you’re a person living in the medieval period and you find yourself on the wrong side of the law, or simply on the wrong side of the powerful. What worries you most: being locked up in a cell, ...

As Britain’s longest-reigning monarch – a rule of 68 years and counting – it’s fair to say that Queen Elizabeth II has probably seen it all. Prime ministers have come and gone; the royal family itself ...