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

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 ...

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What was the Children’s Crusade? The Children’s Crusade is said to have been a failed popular (meaning not sanctioned by the Pope) crusade of 1212, mainly made up of children, with the intent of ...

In the late 19th century, the wealth of the British aristocracy – much of which was wrapped up in agriculture now outsourced to the United States – was dwindling. As fortunes crumbled, so did many of ...

Coming after the inherent social conservatism of the long Victorian age, the Edwardian era offered something of a breath of fresh air – from a rollerskating craze that swept the nation to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Witty, waspish and armed with a pen as sharp as her cheekbones, Nancy Mitford – the eldest of the Mitford sisters – was the family’s satirist-in-chief and arguably its most enduring literary star. As ...

Mary Wollstonecraft was a firebrand thinker of the late 18th century, whose writing proposed radical ideas about equality for all, and the fundamental rights of women. That life took Wollstonecraft ...