When England’s first true king confronted Viking power in the north, one of his most effective weapons became his manipulation of loyalty ...
The fourth season of hit Regency period drama Bridgerton tells the story of second son Benedict’s relationship with Sophie, a ...
More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...
As trench warfare paralysed the Western Front, an experimental vehicle pointed the way toward a different type of warfare – and a century of armoured combat ...
Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...
A peace treaty ended the Mexican–American War in February 1848 and officially left California as new American territory.
Cats might have been sacred in ancient Egypt, but they were far from cherished pets. Discover why our assumptions about their ...
Extravagant clothes and celebrity culture defined Georgian Britain. Alice examines how fashion, fame and vanity became irresistible targets for caricature. Grotesque, imaginative and influential, ...
He is one of the greatest writers of all time, and our longing to know as much as we can about him continues. We know that William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to John and Mary Shakespeare of ...
In the mid-1970s, New York faced bankruptcy. The city was visibly decaying. The era was vividly captured in director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader’s Taxi Driver, starring Robert De ...
After many centuries, the Bayeux Tapestry is returning to Britain in 2026. But as the loan draws closer, new information about attempts to bring forth a previous loan have come to light ...
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