A new academic study reveals how Cold War paranoia, space medicine, and germ theory collided in one of the most bizarre ...

Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

In early modern Britain, neighbourly gossip was the backbone of a court system that turned moments of privacy into public ...

Emily Hobhouse revealed the truth about Britain’s brutal treatment of Boer civilians during the South African War. She was ...

The Fountain of Youth is most associated with the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León, but people have believed in ...

So, you’re a person living in the medieval period and you find yourself on the wrong side of the law, or simply on the wrong side of the powerful. What worries you most: being locked up in a cell, ...

Earlier this year, we launched our '30 under 30' competition in collaboration with historian, presenter and author Alice Loxton. Alfred is Assistant Curator of Historic Buildings at HM Tower of London ...

What was the difference between suffragists and suffragettes? A key difference between suffragists and suffragettes is that while the suffragists used largely peaceful methods such as lobbying, the ...

History is written by the victors, it’s said. Certainly, much of what we know about the early story of Paris dates from the conquest of Gaul under Julius Caesar, who wrote about the capital of the ...

In November 1771, Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, handed his brother, George III, a note. In it he confessed his marriage to a young widow, Anne Horton (née Luttrell), in a secret ceremony.

According to the sagas, the Jomsvikings were a band of Norse warriors based in Jomsborg, which means ‘Jom Fortress’. It was called after its location on the island Jom, somewhere on the southern coast ...

Although the castle was said to be “escape-proof”, more escape attempts took place at Colditz than any other PoW camp. Altogether more than 130 men broke out of the castle, though little more than 30 ...