For most people in 14th-century England, home meant a smoky, crowded hall where eating, working and sleeping all happened in ...

After becoming the first human to orbit Earth, Yuri Gagarin was transformed into a global celebrity and sent around the world as the smiling face of Soviet power. But what did the cosmonaut make of ...

More than two centuries before Richard III would be accused of killing his own nephews, the Princes in the Tower, another ...

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The Roman empire was by no means the largest in history: in fact 25 others have occupied a larger land mass either before or since. Yet very few can boast as wide-reaching an influence and impact. At ...

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 ...

The 1921 British Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition set out from India to find a route to, and hopefully up, the world’s highest mountain, but on their return the team had more to report than the ...

What was the difference between suffragists and suffragettes? A key difference between suffragists and suffragettes is that while the suffragists used largely peaceful methods such as lobbying, the ...

The eldest son of a baronet, Sir Oswald Mosley was born into an aristocratic family in London in 1896. He rose to fame as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1920s before becoming the founder and head ...

“There are only about four hundred people in fashionable New York Society,” a gentleman named Ward McAllister told the New York Tribune in 1888. “If you go outside that number,” he warned, “you strike ...

Harald made his first mark in history as a 15-year-old warrior, when he fought alongside his elder half-brother King Olaf II (later Saint Olaf) against Danes loyal to Cnut the Great in the battle of ...