The idea that medieval people routinely emptied chamber pots straight into the street as their primary method of waste ...

In the middle decades of the 19th century, Britain experienced rapid industrial change without suffering revolution or major ...

As Europe lay in ruins following the end of the Second World War, Churchill’s instinct was to punish the surviving Nazi ...

Rather than focusing on the risk to the Bayeux Tapestry in its forthcoming loan to the British Museum, David Musgrove argues ...

From dealing with nits to learning the three Rs, ancient Roman childhood bore some striking similarities to the modern ...

Victorian audiences revelled in riddles, physical comedy and bawdy jokes that challenge everything we think we know about 19th-century respectability ...

During the Second Punic War, the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal led his forces to numerous victories. But did he really take war elephants across the Alps?

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

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Iran enjoys one of the richest historical lineages of any modern state stretching back several thousand years. This history can be broadly divided into three epochs: the pre-Islamic ancient period ...

It is impossible today to imagine a world without what are known as Hindu-Arabic numerals. These nine symbols or digits (1 to 9) and zero (0) – crucially, together with the system of arranging them in ...