Want to dig into the drama behind Magna Carta? HistoryExtra’s Emily Briffett gathers together a shelf of essential reads to ...
Want to know more about Elizabeth I and her remarkable reign? Rachel Dinning rounds up essential reads to explore her early ...
Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the ...
When England’s first true king confronted Viking power in the north, one of his most effective weapons became his manipulation of loyalty ...
The fourth season of hit Regency period drama Bridgerton tells the story of second son Benedict’s relationship with Sophie, a ...
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 ...
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.
Cats might have been sacred in ancient Egypt, but they were far from cherished pets. Discover why our assumptions about their ...
Extravagant clothes and celebrity culture defined Georgian Britain. Alice examines how fashion, fame and vanity became irresistible targets for caricature. Grotesque, imaginative and influential, ...
The people of ancient Rome lived in a wide range of housing, from grand urban mansions to crowded flats and makeshift dwellings attached to shops. Where and how someone lived depended on geography, ...
At a glance, the fall of the Aztec empire in the early 16th century seems like one of history’s clearest before-and-after moments: a powerful empire crushed almost instantly by a handful of Spanish ...
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