Art Deco became the defining style of the interwar years. But its bold glamour rested on a questionable patchwork of ...

This list of the best history podcasts will pluck you from the present and send you on an auditory voyage through the past ...

Sixteenth-century England was a nation permanently on guard. Dynastic wars had only recently ended with the rise of Henry VII, and the prospect of foreign invasion loomed large in the minds of Tudor ...

Elizabeth Vassall’s audacious deception highlights how wealth, slavery and patriarchy collided in Georgian Britain ...

Across the wide plains of central Europe some 20,000 years ago, small bands of people began their days preparing for work. Men and women alike readied their tools: some for hunting, some for gathering ...

They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.

Is there any better way to understand the deadly politics and high drama of the Tudor era than through the lens of their audacious romantic entanglements? “[Sex] was seriously important to people in ...

In 1462, a host of Ottoman soldiers trudged through the countryside of what is now southern Romania, then the principality of Wallachia, towards its capital, Târgoviște – the fortress of Vlad III ...

In the late 19th century, the face of the United States was transformed by industrialisation. Steel, oil and railroads fuelled an age of tycoons – men who built vast fortunes while reshaping the ...

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, ...