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 ...

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

What were the lives of women like throughout the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods? Modern archaeology is only just ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1921 British Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition set out from India to find a route to, and hopefully up, the world’s highest mountain, but on their return the team had more to report than the ...

Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...

With the benefit of hindsight, it seems odd that anyone in Britain would have wanted to make friends with Adolf Hitler, the most recognisable face of evil in the 20th century. But in the 1930s, many ...