In a kingdom recently divided by faith, Elizabeth I’s government turned to espionage to defend the Protestant crown. This is ...
In 1945, as Europe celebrated peace, Winston Churchill quietly asked his generals to plan an attack on the Soviet Union. But ...
Hermann Göring was once Hitler’s chosen successor, and the most powerful man in Nazi Germany after the Führer. He embodied ...
A new film, starring Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, dramatises the Allies’ postwar quest to hold the surviving leaders of the ...
Ancient Roman gladiators are often imagined as chiselled, bronzed heroes of the arena, akin to today’s top athletes. But the ...
The 20th President of the United States had the potential to be one of the greats, according to many – until his ...
Dixon line, he had achieved his escape from enslavement. But the first years of his freedom were marked by fear, isolation ...
Lucretia Garfield, also known as Crete, was the wife of US President James A Garfield and served briefly as First Lady in ...
That’s what renowned barrister, and bestselling historian, Philippe Sands told us, but could you? With the 80th anniversary ...
In 1605, a small band of English Catholics tried to destroy the king, his family and parliament in a single explosion. This ...
From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...
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