Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the ...

Want to know more about Elizabeth I and her remarkable reign? Rachel Dinning rounds up essential reads to explore her early ...

The fourth season of hit Regency period drama Bridgerton tells the story of second son Benedict’s relationship with Sophie, a ...

When England’s first true king confronted Viking power in the north, one of his most effective weapons became his manipulation of loyalty ...

Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

A peace treaty ended the Mexican–American War in February 1848 and officially left California as new American territory.

As trench warfare paralysed the Western Front, an experimental vehicle pointed the way toward a different type of warfare – and a century of armoured combat ...

Want to dig into the drama behind Magna Carta? HistoryExtra’s Emily Briffett gathers together a shelf of essential reads to ...

The year 1900 had been Queen Victoria’s annus horribilis: “a horrible year, nothing but sadness and horrors of one kind & another,” she wrote. The Boer War (1899–1902, fought between Great Britain and ...

In the mid-1970s, New York faced bankruptcy. The city was visibly decaying. The era was vividly captured in director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader’s Taxi Driver, starring Robert De ...

In Tudor England, maintaining the difference between ranks was so important to the concept of a well-ordered society that efforts were made to enshrine the distinctions between the classes in ...