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, ...

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

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

Introducing Life Lessons from History, packed with advice from the past to help us live better, happier, healthier, or more ...

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 ...

As Britain’s longest-reigning monarch – a rule of 68 years and counting – it’s fair to say that Queen Elizabeth II has probably seen it all. Prime ministers have come and gone; the royal family itself ...

Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...

The 1921 British Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition set out from India to find a route to, and hopefully up, the world’s highest mountain, but on their return the team had more to report than the ...

The Roman empire was by no means the largest in history: in fact 25 others have occupied a larger land mass either before or since. Yet very few can boast as wide-reaching an influence and impact. At ...