Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully ...

Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power ...

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Art Deco became the defining style of the interwar years. But its bold glamour rested on a questionable patchwork of ...

Speaking on her HistoryExtra Academy series on Tudor Life, historian Ruth Goodman explains how a nation without a standing ...

Elizabeth Vassall’s audacious deception highlights how wealth, slavery and patriarchy collided in Georgian Britain ...

What were the lives of women like throughout the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods? Modern archaeology is only just ...

Long before Blair Waldorf ruled Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Alva Vanderbilt was orchestrating social coups, courting ...

Is there any better way to understand the deadly politics and high drama of the Tudor era than through the lens of their audacious romantic entanglements? “[Sex] was seriously important to people in ...

In the late 19th century, the face of the United States was transformed by industrialisation. Steel, oil and railroads fuelled an age of tycoons – men who built vast fortunes while reshaping the ...