Cutting ties with continental Europe in around 3000 BC, ancient Britons abandoned innovation and shunned trade. Why did they ...

From ancient law codes to 20th-century psychoanalysis, the story of fatherhood is far stranger and more surprising than you ...

Australia tried to send a live platypus across U-boat-infested waters to Britain as a diplomatic gift. The mission, part ...

Both men solidified reputations as technological innovators, and on the HistoryExtra podcast, Professor Iwan Morus argues ...

In this HistoryExtra podcast series, travel journalist and history fan Paul Bloomfield virtually roams the streets and sites ...

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

In 1930, the United States war department approved a secret plan that mapped out a course of action for a hypothetical war with Britain. Its codename: War Plan Red. Yes, the two nations were allies, ...

Through the lens of idealised romanticism, the Old West continues to capture the imagination as a wild and untamed frontier ready to be harnessed by those with the determination, courage and grit ...

This was “the real inner sanctum of royal life, where only very few courtiers were allowed to be,” says Ellis. “The bedchamber was somewhere where everybody wanted to be if they wanted to get ahead.” ...

Like many other facial hair styles, the moustache has a long and complicated history. In some periods it has symbolised manly strength, modernity and bravery; in others it was decried as an ...

History is written by the victors, it’s said. Certainly, much of what we know about the early story of Paris dates from the conquest of Gaul under Julius Caesar, who wrote about the capital of the ...

Although the castle was said to be “escape-proof”, more escape attempts took place at Colditz than any other PoW camp. Altogether more than 130 men broke out of the castle, though little more than 30 ...