During the Second Punic War, the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal led his forces to numerous victories. But did he really take war elephants across the Alps?

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

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

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 ...

“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 Greeks called them ‘Keltoi’ or ‘Galatians’, while the Romans knew them as ‘Celtae’ or ‘Gauls’. They were frequently depicted as savage, warlike and dangerous; a very real threat to the survival of ...

The real Genghis, however, was a genuine phenomenon. He and his sons vanquished peoples from the Adriatic to the Pacific, reaching modern Austria, Finland, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Vietnam, Burma, ...