Julian Fellowes, the creator behind HBO’s The Gilded Age, has taken plenty of cues from real history for the characters of ...

The eldest of the Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford turned the eccentricities of her family and social class into sharp, ...

A supernaturally athletic ghost is alleged to have menaced the towns and cities of 19th-century England. Able to spew fire ...

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

From peaches and lentils to your favourite herb, ancient Mediterranean doctors had strong opinions about what you should (and ...

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within the region’s prehistoric ruling dynasties. But new research suggests that ...

Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...

Drawn from the British aristocracy to the heart of Hitler’s inner circle, Unity Mitford’s life was a disturbing collision of ...

Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became ...

The Mitford sisters’ early lives. The Mitford sisters were the daughters of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale – known affectionately by them as ‘Farve’ – a fox hunting, blustering reactionary ...