A fresh re-reading of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests that King Harold Godwinson didn’t race south by land after Stamford Bridge, but instead used a coordinated naval strategy. What does that mean ...
Anne Boleyn was Henry VIII’s second wife, and the first to be executed. She was also the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. But how ...
From the Suez Crisis and Vietnam, to 21st-century political tensions, the alliance between Britain and the United States has ...
In ancient Rome, putting on theatrical plays was not just a form of entertainment – it became a powerful tool of propaganda ...
From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...
In June 1940, as France collapsed and Britain faced the prospect of resisting the Nazis alone, Winston Churchill searched for a French leader willing to keep fighting ...
Pliny the Elder was an intellectual powerhouse of ancient Rome. Though not a physician, in describing the ideal daily routine ...
Walk through a busy European town in the 14th century, and numerous powerful and distinct smells would assail your nostrils. Horses trot along, leaving heaps of dung in the streets. Loud market stalls ...
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