What did Roman houses look like, and how did they vary depending on a person's social status? Even with some considerable ...

Margaret Beaufort has long been put forward as a shadowy mastermind potentially behind one of England’s greatest royal ...

When did you first hear about Sophie Scholl? While I was doing research for my Nazi-era novels about a fictional German ...

Introduced in the wake of the Norman Conquest, the murdrum fine was meant to protect Norman settlers from revenge killings.

One of the earliest Norse myths depicts the so-called god of thunder in women’s clothing. Far from undermining Thor’s power, ...

In the early stages of the First World War, Brits and Germans came together on the frontlines to pause the fighting for ...

Horses are instinctively wired to run from danger. So how did medieval armies train them to thunder towards enemy lines ...

In an era when candidates were expected to remain silent, detached and above the chase for votes, James Garfield’s improvised presidential campaign in the late 19th century transformed the race for th ...

Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was found guilty of high treason by a jury of her peers in the king’s hall at the Tower on 15 May 1536. She was executed by decapitation on 19 May 1536 – and is ...

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 ...

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 second Monday of October is a federal public holiday in the United States. Known as Columbus Day, it marks the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas in 1492 – an event that ...