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

The Ladies of Llangollen built a life together in 18th century Wales, becoming famous for their shared home, joint identity ...

For centuries, no one paid much notice to a small mound at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar. All that could be about to change ...

In this four-part HistoryExtra series, Professor Adam IP Smith examines how 13 British colonies became the United States of ...

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Mary I had been waiting almost her entire life for her wedding day. At 38, she was an old bride by contemporary standards, but as morning arrived on 23 July 1554, she was excited at the prospect of ...

Of all the Mitford sisters, Unity Valkyrie Mitford – nicknamed ‘Bobo’ and ‘Boud’ by her siblings – was the most chilling. Tall, striking and unflinchingly devoted to extremes, Unity was a Nazi fanatic ...

Upon its release in 2018, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was widely seen as setting a new standard for historical accuracy in videogames, with its painstaking efforts to bring the brutal and beautiful ...

How did many Nazis escape – and who helped them? Rumour has long had it that the nefarious ODESSA, codename for a supposed ‘Organisation of Former SS Members’, sluiced Nazis out of Europe to South ...