In the Georgian period, when same-sex couples could not marry, some queer men may have used adult adoption to create legal ...
In this four-part HistoryExtra series, Professor Adam IP Smith examines how 13 British colonies became the United States of ...
For centuries, no one paid much notice to a small mound at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar. All that could be about to change ...
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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 ...
On 2 October 1187, the sultan Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub – known commonly today as Saladin – captured Jerusalem for the people of Islam. It was the crowning achievement of his career – an ...
In the late 19th century, the wealth of the British aristocracy – much of which was wrapped up in agriculture now outsourced to the United States – was dwindling. As fortunes crumbled, so did many of ...
How did many Nazis escape – and who helped them? Rumour has long had it that the nefarious ODESSA, codename for a supposed ‘Organisation of Former SS Members’, sluiced Nazis out of Europe to South ...
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 ...
Coming after the inherent social conservatism of the long Victorian age, the Edwardian era offered something of a breath of fresh air – from a rollerskating craze that swept the nation to the ...
In 1066, as everybody knows, the Normans invaded England. That most engaging of all medieval sources, the Bayeux Tapestry, shows them landing their horses at Pevensey in Sussex and racing to occupy ...
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