In the Georgian period, when same-sex couples could not marry, some queer men may have used adult adoption to create legal ...
In this four-part HistoryExtra series, Professor Adam IP Smith examines how 13 British colonies became the United States of ...
For centuries, no one paid much notice to a small mound at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar. All that could be about to change ...
The Ladies of Llangollen built a life together in 18th century Wales, becoming famous for their shared home, joint identity ...
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How did many Nazis escape – and who helped them? Rumour has long had it that the nefarious ODESSA, codename for a supposed ‘Organisation of Former SS Members’, sluiced Nazis out of Europe to South ...
In 1900, as the Victorian era drew to a close, a 40-year-old British woman boarded a South African train loaded with 12 tons of relief supplies. She was heading into the middle of a brutal conflict ...
It didn’t start that way, however, as all King Louis XIII wanted was a hunting lodge for his family when building began in 1623. It was his son, Louis XIV – the Sun King, famous for his bling – who ...
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 ...
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