Having pondered the traits that mark out those who reach the top of the tree and achieve greatness there, Mike Soutar – host ...

In January 1945, British commandos and Indian troops fought to cut a vital Japanese route through Burma. The struggle around ...

History's Greatest Dishes serves up a feast of facts about some of the past's most remarkable delicacies. Expect culinary ...

When he was captured by the Nazis in 1944, George Lascelles – the eldest nephew of King George VI – became one of Colditz ...

Grown in India and sold into China, opium generated substantial revenues for British rule – and much more Lin Zexu was a ...

To the rest of the world, Göring often appeared as the public face of Nazi Germany during the 1930s, embodying the regime’s ambition and arrogance. And within Nazi Germany, he was Hitler’s closest ...

Perhaps it’s because the medium is so well-suited to storytelling. Podcasts invite listeners into the past through conversation and narrative – and when done right, this can bring history to life in a ...

They were an aristocratic sorority like no other – controversial, stylish and utterly polarising. Products of British high society, the Mitford sisters were a six-piece social meteor shower streaking ...

A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish descent, Saladin was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (which ruled over modern-day Egypt and parts of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen) and was the first man at the time of ...

This six-part video course covers everything you need to know about Nazi Germany, guided by historian, author and broadcaster Laurence Rees Find out more Roger Moorhouse is a historian specialising in ...

Through the lens of idealised romanticism, the Old West continues to capture the imagination as a wild and untamed frontier ready to be harnessed by those with the determination, courage and grit ...