As trench warfare paralysed the Western Front, an experimental vehicle pointed the way toward a different type of warfare – ...

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

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 ...

After many centuries, the Bayeux Tapestry is returning to Britain in 2026. But as the loan draws closer, new information ...

In the 1990s, oral historian Alan Dein received a commission from the Steel Industry Project. His task was to record the voices of workers in a declining industry. Tough times seemed to lie ahead.

The struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism came to a head in England when Maria of Modena gave birth to an heir with ...

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 ...

“I blush for mankind.” That was Nikolay Karamzin’s withering verdict on the reign of Catherine the Great. Karamzin – who, in the early 19th century, penned a wide­ranging history of Russia – wasn’t ...

In 1066, as everybody knows, the Normans invaded England. That most engaging of all medieval sources, the Bayeux Tapestry, shows them landing their horses at Pevensey in Sussex and racing to occupy ...