For most people in Tudor England, an ordinary diet was more structured – and often more varied – than we might expect ...
Amid the industrial warfare of the Second World War, battlefield performance depended on precise logistics and the ability to ...
Want to dig into the drama behind Magna Carta? HistoryExtra’s Emily Briffett gathers together a shelf of essential reads to explore the crisis of King John’s reign, what was really hammered out at ...
Want to know more about Elizabeth I and her remarkable reign? Rachel Dinning rounds up essential reads to explore her early ...
Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the ...
When England’s first true king confronted Viking power in the north, one of his most effective weapons became his manipulation of loyalty ...
The fourth season of hit Regency period drama Bridgerton tells the story of second son Benedict’s relationship with Sophie, a ...
As trench warfare paralysed the Western Front, an experimental vehicle pointed the way toward a different type of warfare – and a century of armoured combat ...
A peace treaty ended the Mexican–American War in February 1848 and officially left California as new American territory.
“There were female gladiators and there’s no doubt about that.” That's the assessment of historian Harry Sidebottom, author of Those Who Are About to Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind, speaking on an ...
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 ...
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 ...