When the Great Fire of Northampton tore through the town in 1675, almost every pub inside the walls was destroyed – except ...

Aside from being the rumoured “lover of the Russian queen” featured in Boney M’s song, Rasputin was an incredibly influential and controversial figure at the Russian royal court until his death in ...

Leading the cast in D-Day drama Pressure, Andrew Scott stars as James Stagg. Among the meteorologists advising Dwight D Eisenhower on whether to launch Operation Overlord, Stagg’s voice is the most ...

Day drama Pressure, Kerry Condon stars as Kay Summersby, US General Dwight D Eisenhower’s aide and driver. In the film she ...

Anthony Maras’ Second World War movie Pressure – adapted for the screen from David Haig’s hit play – takes us into the heart of a military storm. We join the action in late spring 1944 at Southwick ...

In the Operation Overlord drama Pressure, Chris Messina stars as American meteorologist Irving P Krick, working on weather ...

In autumn 1887, a 23-year-old woman checked into a temporary boarding house for working women in New York City. She immediately alarmed the other residents: she didn’t sleep for days, and insisted ...

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 ...

Sometimes referred to as one of history’s first recorded serial killers, Gilles de Rais, the Baron of Retz, was executed in October 1440 for the murders of at least 140 children. Whether he was ...