Feared as savage invaders, the Huns posed a serious threat to Rome – but their goal wasn’t conquest, or Roman annihilation ...

The Great Heathen Army wasn’t a single unified force, but rather a shifting coalition of warbands whose multi-layered leadership helped it outmanoeuvre the Anglo-Saxons ...

One method you likely haven’t tried is putting a cold apple on your head. But, centuries ago, the Tudors and other people of ...

Edmund Ironside was an ill-fated king during a violent and turbulent time in the history of the Anglo-Saxons. But is the ...

In theory, putting down the rebels of the First Jewish Revolt should have been easy for the mighty Roman empire. But ...

Have you ever sat around a dinner table or in a pub and rubbed your finger along the rim of a glass to make that eerie ...

But space travel is also a human endeavour. In the heavens as on Earth, that means it throws up stories that can be bizarre, ...

When Saladin sat down to supper in the spring of 1175, he was already one of the most significant figures in the Islamic world. The former commander of the Fatimid armies in Egypt had, within a decade ...

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 ...

The gladiators of ancient Rome are nearly always imagined as figures of perfect physical presence. They’re popularly pictured as lean, muscular and bronzed from their bouts under the Mediterranean sun ...

In 1900, as the Victorian era drew to a close, a 40-year-old British woman boarded a South African train loaded with 12 tons of relief supplies. She was heading into the middle of a brutal conflict ...

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 ...