For centuries, no one paid much notice to a small mound at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar. All that could be about to change ...

In this four-part HistoryExtra series, Professor Adam IP Smith examines how 13 British colonies became the United States of ...

In the Georgian period, when same-sex couples could not marry, some queer men may have used adult adoption to create legal ...

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 ...

Witty, waspish and armed with a pen as sharp as her cheekbones, Nancy Mitford – the eldest of the Mitford sisters – was the family’s satirist-in-chief and arguably its most enduring literary star. As ...

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 ...

Upon its release in 2018, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was widely seen as setting a new standard for historical accuracy in videogames, with its painstaking efforts to bring the brutal and beautiful ...

It might seem astonishing that so much political energy could be consumed by what came to be known as the Petticoat Affair, which began in 1829 when members of Andrew Jackson’s cabinet and their wives ...

Mary Wollstonecraft was a firebrand thinker of the late 18th century, whose writing proposed radical ideas about equality for all, and the fundamental rights of women. That life took Wollstonecraft ...

The words ‘latrine’ and ‘disaster’ should give a clue as to how between 60 and 100 members of the Holy Roman Empire aristocracy succumbed to a spectacularly foul demise. Gathered in 1184 in an ancient ...

It should come as little surprise that in cultures throughout history and around the world, the Sun has been elevated to a divine status time and time again. Ever-watchful over us from the heavens, it ...

The symbol of the hammer and sickle is typically presented in a two-dimensional format, with the hammer crossed over the curved blade of the sickle (a tool traditionally used for harvesting crops, ...