Over the past few weeks, Norway’s World Cup squad has captured the imagination of football fans around the globe with its ...

In the Georgian period, when same-sex couples could not marry, some queer men may have used adult adoption to create legal ...

In this four-part HistoryExtra series, Professor Adam IP Smith examines how 13 British colonies became the United States of ...

For centuries, no one paid much notice to a small mound at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar. All that could be about to change ...

Filmmaker Jon Erwin’s frontier drama Young Washington stars London-born William Franklyn-Miller as the future first President of the United States. But when the movie opens in July 1755, the figure of ...

So the Bayeux Tapestry has come home. In the quietest point of the night of 9/10 July (and a hot, sweltering night at that), a lorry rolled into the cargo bay of the British Museum. Inside, in its ...

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The Normans were the violent parvenu opportunists of their day: Vikings who settled in Normandy and became French before conquering England and becoming English. From obscure Scandinavian origins, the ...

On 8 June AD 793, the peaceful and remote monastic community of Lindisfarne Priory suffered a surprise Viking raid. It wasn’t to be a one-off, but proved just the beginning of a period of conquest and ...

On 2 October 1187, the sultan Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub – known commonly today as Saladin – captured Jerusalem for the people of Islam. It was the crowning achievement of his career – an ...

What were the Corn Laws? The most infamous Corn Laws were the protectionist measures brought in by the British government in 1815, which restricted the amount of foreign grain that could be imported ...