Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

As the name implies, each episode of roughly an hour covers a historical topic in brief, everything from the history and uses of English castles to the Industrial Revolution. The first one I listened ...

Women were often remembered as the victims of violence. The most notable names from early Roman history are the quasimythical Sabine women and Lucretia, all legendary victims of rape, as was ...