Long before Blair Waldorf ruled Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Alva Vanderbilt was orchestrating social coups, courting ...
Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once ...
Andrew Carnegie stood at just 4 feet 10 inches tall, yet this Scottish immigrant reshaped American industry and philanthropy ...
How did the Norse adventurers of the Viking Age impose themselves upon eastern Europe? Not with longships and raids, says one ...
Vlad III Dracula, the brutal warlord and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire, has long held a reputation as ...
What was the Fenian Brotherhood in Netflix’s drama House of Guinness? How influential was it in 19th-century Ireland, and did ...
But Carnegie’s story is one of striking contradictions: a businessman who crushed labour strikes, yet also a philanthropist ...
During the Second World War, Britain held funerals for enemy servicemen with swastika flags. This is how respect for the dead ...
Who was the legendary Viking warrior Thorkell the Tall, and precisely how tall was he? From his links with the Jomsvikings to his role in the shifting Anglo-Saxon history leading up to 1066, his story ...
Britain’s wartime evacuation scheme uprooted millions, but the familiar images of children clutching gas masks hides a much ...
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