Two near-fatal attacks on Saladin by the Nizari Ismailis reveal a Middle Eastern landscape far more complex than the usual ...
A new theory proposes that the Bayeux Tapestry was designed to deliver moral messages to medieval monks over dinner ...
The Spanish conquest might have toppled the Aztec imperial state with startling speed, but unpicking precisely what ‘collapse ...
Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...
Want to live like a Tudor? Historian Ruth Goodman did, and here are five crucial lessons she learned
What did everyday life look like for the millions of ordinary people living in Tudor England? Historian Ruth Goodman found ...
Henry VIII planned a monumental tomb to match his power and legacy. Instead, the king who reshaped England’s relationship with Rome now lies beneath a small, easily missed slab. Here’s how three Tudor ...
Go beyond our Sunday Series podcasts with these curated selections of essential reading from the HistoryExtra and BBC History ...
David Musgrove reports on new research that casts light on the appearance of the comet in the 11th century, and its depiction in the Bayeux Tapestry ...
Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how spectacle, politics and social boundaries shaped life in the empire ...
We’re off to see… the Wicked Witch of the West, as she returns to the silver screen in Wicked: For Good, the second part of the fantasy epic based on the popular stage musical. But where would Elphaba ...
In the decades after the American Civil War ended in 1865, the United States was a nation still grappling with its own grief. As many as 750,000 people had died in the conflict as they fought their ...
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