In ancient Rome, putting on theatrical plays was not just a form of entertainment – it became a powerful tool of propaganda ...
From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...
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 ...
Pliny the Elder was an intellectual powerhouse of ancient Rome. Though not a physician, in describing the ideal daily routine ...
The idea that medieval people routinely emptied chamber pots straight into the street as their primary method of waste ...
In the middle decades of the 19th century, Britain experienced rapid industrial change without suffering revolution or major ...
At a glance, the fall of the Aztec empire in the early 16th century seems like one of history’s clearest before-and-after moments: a powerful empire crushed almost instantly by a handful of Spanish ...
It’s not too often that medieval historians grab national headlines, but when you get an Oxford academic counting penises in a world-famous embroidery, you’re sure to arouse media attention. On ...
This six-part video course covers everything you need to know about Nazi Germany, guided by historian, author and broadcaster Laurence Rees Roger Moorhouse is a historian specialising in modern German ...
Smothered by sheets of ice and rugged tundra, Greenland is the world’s largest island. Situated in the cold waters of the north Atlantic and crossing through the Arctic circle, the sparsely populated ...
It might seem astonishing that so much political energy could be consumed by what came to be known as the Petticoat Affair, which began in 1829 when members of Andrew Jackson’s cabinet and their wives ...