Before Bosworth, Margaret Beaufort’s actions were shaped less by maternal devotion to Henry Tudor than by trauma – and the ...

The assassinations of US presidents had lasting impacts on American history, shaping political policies, security measures ...

Has history captured Lady Jane Grey’s story accurately? As her childhood home re-opens to the public, we investigate the ...

Winston Churchill’s leadership in 1940 became one of the defining moments of modern British history – but the legacy of that ...

The lives of noble women in the Viking world were shaped by politics and logistics, and worlds apart from the lives of ...

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African-Americans had wilfully violated the segregation of public transport before Rosa Parks, even in her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, where 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested nine months ...

I’m Dave, and I’m broadly in charge of all the content we produce across the HistoryExtra portfolio, so that’s the print magazine, the website, podcasts, video output, apps and live events. Obviously ...

Roman wars was interrupted by one of the defining events of the 1st century, and gave birth to one of ancient Rome’s most ...

The botched Bay of Pigs invasion stands as one of several US failings in the 1960s as the Cold War rolled on. Why was it such a disaster?

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 ...