In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a grieving nation turned towards spiritualism in the hope of seeing the dead once ...

There have been many examples of pointed hats in history, but it remains unclear how any of them became a must-wear for the ...

From ritual parades to blood-soaked duels, explore a single day in the life (and death) of the most brutal entertainment in ...

Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...

Giuseppe Garibaldi’s courage and charisma made him a hero of Italian unification in the 19th century. Here’s how he became a ...

In a kingdom recently divided by faith, Elizabeth I’s government turned to espionage to defend the Protestant crown. This is ...

In 1945, as Europe celebrated peace, Winston Churchill quietly asked his generals to plan an attack on the Soviet Union. But ...

Heading to spots where few European travellers journey, the classicist and historian visits Oman on the coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Here, she tells the story of a powerful “Desert Lord” laid low ...

In the autumn of 1945, in a bombed-out Germany still reeling from defeat and occupation, the victorious Allies launched a remarkable experiment in international justice: the Nuremberg Trials. The ...

Explore how modern Britons sought signs of divine order in a collapsing world – from searching snails’ shells to eating moles ...

Dixon line, he had achieved his escape from enslavement. But the first years of his freedom were marked by fear, isolation ...