Before he was the monarch with six wives – two of whom he had beheaded – Henry VIII was a Tudor adonis: attractive and active ...
When you think about the driving forces that contributed to progress in medieval Britain, you might think about the likes of ...
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 ...
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 the Middle Ages ...
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 ...
John F Kennedy holds a prestigious position in the American imagination – a man of wartime heroism, soaring rhetoric and youthful charm who embodied postwar optimism. It’s an image made even more ...
Steven Knight doesn’t mess around with the subject matter for his gritty, historical British crime dramas. Like Peaky Blinders before it, new Disney+ drama A Thousand Blows catapults viewers head on ...
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