As tensions build between the US and its long-term allies, historian Sam Edwards examines how the international military ...

More than a century after the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin’s decision to organise the Soviet state around national ...

A fresh re-reading of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests that King Harold Godwinson didn’t race south by land after Stamford Bridge, but instead used a coordinated naval strategy. What does that mean ...

Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII’s second wife, and the first to be executed. She was also the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. But how ...

From the Suez Crisis and Vietnam, to 21st-century political tensions, the alliance between Britain and the United States has ...

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 ...

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 ...

“There were female gladiators and there’s no doubt about that.” That's the assessment of historian Harry Sidebottom, author of Those Who Are About to Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind, speaking on an ...

Duke William of Normandy, who would become known as William the Conqueror, arguably changed the course of English history more profoundly than any ruler before or since. Despite beginning life as a ...