Amazons, werewolves and unnamed traders: historian Owen Rees uncovers the lives hidden at the edges of ancient empires – and ...

Dorset's Maiden Castle was the site of an infamous Roman massacre. Or was it? New research on the skeletal remains of Iron ...

Bought at auction and long dismissed as an unremarkable copy, a document in Harvard Law School’s archives has been dramatically reclassified as an extraordinarily rare original of the 1300 reissue of ...

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It’s 40 years since the wreck of the Titanic was discovered, yet the great liner continues to fascinate. As do stories of those who lost their lives back in 1912. Here, the focus is on the everyday ...

Royal residences have been a hotbed of drama, violence and intrigue down the centuries. In our new Academy video series Royal Residences: Secrets and Scandals, historian Kate Williams delves deep into ...

Is the proposed loan of the Bayeux Tapestry from France to the UK actually going to happen? If the 11th-century embroidery of the Norman Conquest were to be displayed in Britain, it would be one of ...

I spoke to a woman who had been outside the gates of Buckingham Palace on VE Day chanting: ‘We want the king!’ and later doing the conga in the street. That gave me a real idea of the sense of ...

On 22 November 1963, President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. At the time of his death, Kennedy had served fewer than three years as president, but within US politics, he was a ...

“Hitler has only got one ball, / Goring has two but very small, / Himmler is rather sim’lar, / But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.” This cheeky wartime ditty mocking the masculinity of Adolf ...