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 ...

Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

A peace treaty ended the Mexican–American War in February 1848 and officially left California as new American territory.

Cats might have been sacred in ancient Egypt, but they were far from cherished pets. Discover why our assumptions about their ...

Extravagant clothes and celebrity culture defined Georgian Britain. Alice examines how fashion, fame and vanity became irresistible targets for caricature. Grotesque, imaginative and influential, ...

The people of ancient Rome lived in a wide range of housing, from grand urban mansions to crowded flats and makeshift dwellings attached to shops. Where and how someone lived depended on geography, ...

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 true that the Vikings were formidable raiders, warriors and explorers – storming monasteries on the coasts of Britain, sailing rivers into the depths of eastern Europe and even journeying as far ...

When Leif Erikson and his fellow Norse explorers first sighted the forested shores of what is now northeastern Canada, they became the first Europeans known to set foot in North America. This was near ...