The star of Loki and The Night Manager hosts a retelling of the destruction of Pompeii – one that manages to make one of the ...

Ancient Greece had a rich panoply of deities and making sense of the web of family trees can be challenging. Matt Doherty ...

He has sailed to Troy with the coalition of Greek rulers determined to recover Helen, wife of Menelaus, after she was taken by the Trojan prince Paris. He has fought in a war that lasted ten years.

Remembered for: Conspiring against James VI and I and planning to blow up the House of Lords. Every year on 5 November people mark the anniversary of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot. Family: Guy ...

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

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What was the Falklands War? The Falklands War saw Britain and Argentina battle for control of the Falkland Islands – a tiny archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean made up of two main islands (dubbed ...

On 30 April 1945, as Allied forces closed in on Berlin from both east and west, Adolf Hitler went into his private study in the underground Führerbunker and shot himself in the right temple. An all-or ...

Why did Henry VIII boil his cook alive? 17 grisly tales from Tudor England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

For many people, the words ‘Viking funeral’ conjure an image of a deceased warrior aboard a flaming longboat surrounded by lavish gifts, floating off into the distance. Numerous depictions exist in TV ...

On 22 March 51 BC, huge crowds gathered along the Nile at Thebes (modern Luxor), awaiting the arrival of a procession like no other they had seen before. At the centre of the cavalcade was the Buchis ...

The term ‘Greek life’ has little to do with ancient Greece or its long history – so forget about the temples and city states, the philosophers and warriors, the mythologies and experimental theatre.