As Europe lay in ruins following the end of the Second World War, Churchill’s instinct was to punish the surviving Nazi ...

Rather than focusing on the risk to the Bayeux Tapestry in its forthcoming loan to the British Museum, David Musgrove argues ...

From dealing with nits to learning the three Rs, ancient Roman childhood bore some striking similarities to the modern ...

With conflicting advice and endless new trends, it can feel hard to keep up with the modern health and wellness space. But ...

Before picket lines and unionisation, ancient Egyptian artisans learned that collectively withdrawing labour could force even ...

As well as creating new regulations on faith, Henry VIII’s 16th-century government also decided which kinds of knowledge were ...

Hitler’s U-boats were a feared component of his naval strategy during the Second World War. But what was life aboard these ...

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 ...

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

The cannon were pumping shot into the hull of the vessel, sending lethal splinters of shrapnel through the air. A fire had broken out below the main deck and the crew was attempting to douse the ...

The Roman empire was by no means the largest in history: in fact 25 others have occupied a larger land mass either before or since. Yet very few can boast as wide-reaching an influence and impact. At ...

The story of how the Anglo-Saxons came to be converted to Christianity begins in Rome, at some point towards the end of the sixth century. A monk named Gregory (who in 590 became Pope Gregory I) was ...