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

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

Edward Colston gave millions in today's money to schools, almshouses and charitable causes, carefully crafting an image of ...

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 ...

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Behaving well as a host or visitor wasn’t just a matter of etiquette for the ancient Greeks – it was a sacred duty. Hilary Mitchell explores xenia, the ancient code of hospitality at the heart of Chri ...

No, Catherine the Great did not meet an outrageously lurid death during an attempt at bestiality. No, she had not rigged up a harness-and-pulley system to hold up a horse up so that she could lie down ...

So, you’re a person living in the medieval period and you find yourself on the wrong side of the law, or simply on the wrong side of the powerful. What worries you most: being locked up in a cell, ...

We’ve put a man on the Moon, come up with the theory of general relativity, split the atom – the list of breakthroughs in making the impossible possible goes on and on. Humanity can achieve pretty ...

It might seem astonishing that so much political energy could be consumed by what came to be known as the Petticoat Affair, which began in 1829 when members of Andrew Jackson’s cabinet and their wives ...

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 ...