Over the past few weeks, Norway’s World Cup squad has captured the imagination of football fans around the globe with its ...

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 ...

So the Bayeux Tapestry has come home. In the quietest point of the night of 9/10 July (and a hot, sweltering night at that), a lorry rolled into the cargo bay of the British Museum. Inside, in its ...

Filmmaker Jon Erwin’s frontier drama Young Washington stars London-born William Franklyn-Miller as the future first President of the United States. But when the movie opens in July 1755, the figure of ...

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In the Georgian period, when same-sex couples could not marry, some queer men may have used adult adoption to create legal ...

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 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 ...

Although the castle was said to be “escape-proof”, more escape attempts took place at Colditz than any other PoW camp. Altogether more than 130 men broke out of the castle, though little more than 30 ...

Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...