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Speaking on her HistoryExtra Academy series on Tudor Life, historian Ruth Goodman explains how a nation without a standing ...
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.
From the importance of female pleasure to why you might need ribbons in the bedroom, historian Ruth Goodman explores the world of Tudor sex ...
Long before Blair Waldorf ruled Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Alva Vanderbilt was orchestrating social coups, courting ...
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 ...
The late Anglo-Saxon period was defined by ever-shifting struggles for supremacy. Across Northern Europe, chaos collided with opportunity, and Thorkell the Tall was among the many figures who set ...