Amid the industrial warfare of the Second World War, battlefield performance depended on precise logistics and the ability to ...

Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the ...

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 ...

The fourth season of hit Regency period drama Bridgerton tells the story of second son Benedict’s relationship with Sophie, a ...

More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...

When England’s first true king confronted Viking power in the north, one of his most effective weapons became his manipulation of loyalty ...

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

The year 1900 had been Queen Victoria’s annus horribilis: “a horrible year, nothing but sadness and horrors of one kind & another,” she wrote. The Boer War (1899–1902, fought between Great Britain and ...

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

Before the existence of humans, before the cosmos, before the gods, there was the Ginnungagap: a gaping, primordial void. On one side of this yawning nothingness was an icy realm called Niflheim, and ...

We might also be forgiven for thinking that the king was so busy keeping up with the women to whom he was legally united that he had little time for any others. However, Henry VIII, with his “angelic” ...