While in theory, a pope couldn’t be removed during the Middle Ages, late medieval Europe still found ways to challenge, ...
Uncover the secrets and extraordinary achievements of Britain’s World War II codebreakers right where it all happened Tucked ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aethelred II – best known by the epithet, ‘the Unready’ – was king of the English for two periods, from AD 978 to 1013, and a brief second spell from 1014 to 1016. His combined reign of nearly 38 ...
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 ...
In 1930, the United States war department approved a secret plan that mapped out a course of action for a hypothetical war with Britain. Its codename: War Plan Red. Yes, the two nations were allies, ...
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 ...
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