A new academic study reveals how Cold War paranoia, space medicine, and germ theory collided in one of the most bizarre ...

Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

In early modern Britain, neighbourly gossip was the backbone of a court system that turned moments of privacy into public ...

Emily Hobhouse revealed the truth about Britain’s brutal treatment of Boer civilians during the South African War. She was ...

The Fountain of Youth is most associated with the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León, but people have believed in ...

Joan Smith describes how the powerful women of ancient Rome’s first imperial dynasty were smeared as adulterers, poisoners ...

Amazons, werewolves and unnamed traders: historian Owen Rees uncovers the lives hidden at the edges of ancient empires – and ...

When the invading Roman legions assaulted the mighty hillfort of Maiden Castle, in Dorset in the middle of the 1st century AD, they killed and quickly buried its British defenders among the ramparts.

Bought at auction and long dismissed as an unremarkable copy, a document in Harvard Law School’s archives has been dramatically reclassified as an extraordinarily rare original of the 1300 reissue of ...

Royal residences have been a hotbed of drama, violence and intrigue down the centuries. In our new Academy video series Royal Residences: Secrets and Scandals, historian Kate Williams delves deep into ...

Is the proposed loan of the Bayeux Tapestry from France to the UK actually going to happen? If the 11th-century embroidery of the Norman Conquest were to be displayed in Britain, it would be one of ...

I spoke to a woman who had been outside the gates of Buckingham Palace on VE Day chanting: ‘We want the king!’ and later doing the conga in the street. That gave me a real idea of the sense of ...