As Europe lay in ruins following the end of the Second World War, Churchill’s instinct was to punish the surviving Nazi ...

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During the Second Punic War, the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal led his forces to numerous victories. But did he really take war elephants across the Alps?

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As well as creating new regulations on faith, Henry VIII’s 16th-century government also decided which kinds of knowledge were ...

Before picket lines and unionisation, ancient Egyptian artisans learned that collectively withdrawing labour could force even ...

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Hitler’s U-boats were a feared component of his naval strategy during the Second World War. But what was life aboard these ...

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 ...

It was a blisteringly hot July day and I was on my annual family holiday to Dorset. But instead of heading to the beach, as we had every other day, we were clustered around the small black-and-white ...