Elizabeth Vassall’s audacious deception highlights how wealth, slavery and patriarchy collided in Georgian Britain ...

Across the wide plains of central Europe some 20,000 years ago, small bands of people began their days preparing for work. Men and women alike readied their tools: some for hunting, some for gathering ...

They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.

Is there any better way to understand the deadly politics and high drama of the Tudor era than through the lens of their audacious romantic entanglements? “[Sex] was seriously important to people in ...

The decades after the American Civil War were dubbed the Gilded Age, a phrase often attributed to author Mark Twain, who used it to describe how the new sheen of dazzling wealth was riddled with deep ...

Andrew Carnegie stood at just 4 feet 10 inches tall, yet this Scottish immigrant reshaped American industry and philanthropy ...

Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once ...

In 1462, a host of Ottoman soldiers trudged through the countryside of what is now southern Romania, then the principality of Wallachia, towards its capital, Târgoviște – the fortress of Vlad III ...

During the Second World War, British civilians who stayed on home soil sometimes witnessed an extraordinary sight: a British-held funeral of a German serviceman, carried through local streets in a ...

House of Guinness’s set-up may be billed as a Succession-style battle between four aristocratic siblings – but behind the (much-elaborated) story of the family lies an Ireland simmering with unrest ...