More than a century after the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin’s decision to organise the Soviet state around national ...
A fresh re-reading of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests that King Harold Godwinson didn’t race south by land after Stamford Bridge, but instead used a coordinated naval strategy. What does that mean ...
Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII’s second wife, and the first to be executed. She was also the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. But how ...
From the Suez Crisis and Vietnam, to 21st-century political tensions, the alliance between Britain and the United States has ...
From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...
In ancient Rome, putting on theatrical plays was not just a form of entertainment – it became a powerful tool of propaganda ...
In June 1940, as France collapsed and Britain faced the prospect of resisting the Nazis alone, Winston Churchill searched for a French leader willing to keep fighting ...
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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 ...
As Britain’s longest-reigning monarch – a rule of 68 years and counting – it’s fair to say that Queen Elizabeth II has probably seen it all. Prime ministers have come and gone; the royal family itself ...
In 1066, as everybody knows, the Normans invaded England. That most engaging of all medieval sources, the Bayeux Tapestry, shows them landing their horses at Pevensey in Sussex and racing to occupy ...
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