There is another figure whose role in the second Viking Age was equally pivotal: Thorkell the Tall. Arguably the most ...

On 23 November 1929 Nigeria’s women rose against the colonial authorities, demanding a return to traditional values and the ...

Pilgrimage is not meant to be easy, but it remains a popular pursuit – even for non-believers.

The People’s Will, which carried out the assassination of Alexander II in 1881, had a profound effect on both the revolutionaries and the authorities in the years before the 1917 revolution. Both ...

The destruction of the Palace of Nestor at the end of the Bronze Age of Greece was no isolated incident. The influence and power of Mycenae had spread throughout the Eastern Mediterranean during the ...

Anthony Rhodes introduces Diocletian, the first sovereign to voluntarily resign power, and how, at the opening of the fourth century, he spent his last years in a huge fortified seaside palace of his ...

The real female Victorian detectives were every bit as bold as their fictional counterparts – and far more prevalent than we ...

Shakespeare’s plays are full of food. Offering a lip-smacking smorgasbord of Tudor delights, his comedies, tragedies, and histories are packed with references to everything from sugared almonds and ...

Gina Anne Tam is Associate Professor of History and Co-Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Trinity University, San Antonio.

What does the history of the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain’s relationship with its neighbours? A t 8.23am on the ...

In its first two centuries of existence Christianity witnessed the persecution of many of its members by officials of the Roman Empire; the causes of these persecutions have been and continue to be ...

In outline the disastrous events of Charles I’s reign are well known to students of the seventeenth century. The king’s inability to work with Parliament led, four years after his accession, to a ...