Emily Briffett and historian Thomas Asbridge explore one of the most devastating catastrophes in human history – the pandemic ...

As long-lasting monarchies fell across the 20th century, Britain’s endured – sustained by wartime victory, constitutional ...

In the early 20th century, the Kennedy family’s political ambitions were built around their eldest son, Joe Jr – until his ...

Before Bosworth, Margaret Beaufort’s actions were shaped less by maternal devotion to Henry Tudor than by trauma – and the ...

Has history captured Lady Jane Grey’s story accurately? As her childhood home re-opens to the public, we investigate the ...

Winston Churchill’s leadership in 1940 became one of the defining moments of modern British history – but the legacy of that ...

The assassinations of US presidents had lasting impacts on American history, shaping political policies, security measures and public trust in government ...

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 ...

Few historical figures have been discussed and debated as much as Adolf Hitler. We have a wealth of primary source material available to us about his life, including his autobiographical manifesto ...

In the history of the presidents of the United States, James Garfield is too easily overlooked. It’s not hard to see why: his time in the presidential spotlight had been brief, emerging late as a ...

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 ...

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 ...