Britain’s wartime evacuation scheme uprooted millions, but the familiar images of children clutching gas masks hides a much ...

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Emily Callaci discusses a bold – and controversial – feminist movement that campaigned for women to be paid for household ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s narrative of a shared Russian–Ukrainian origin in the Viking-founded Kievan Rus is having ...

Matilda of Flanders sits in the shadow of her more famous husband but, writes Tracy Borman, she was an able political player ...

On the HistoryExtra podcast, historian Steven Gunn reveals what coroners’ inquests tell us about everyday Tudor life, and how ...

Greek myths of the Amazons blended kernels of truth with male fantasy to create a legend that has lasted for millennia.

Duke William of Normandy, who would become known as William the Conqueror, arguably changed the course of English history more profoundly than any ruler before or since. Despite beginning life as a ...

When Leif Erikson and his fellow Norse explorers first sighted the forested shores of what is now northeastern Canada, they became the first Europeans known to set foot in North America. This was near ...

In 14th-century England, the prevailing experience wasn’t of medieval splendour, of chivalric knights, illuminated manuscripts and mighty monarchs. From the early 1300s to the century’s close, England ...

Imagine a US president who was highly intelligent and educated, who had a tremendous capacity for hard work, and who retained a very strong sense of personal morality. Surely those characteristics ...

Through the lens of idealised romanticism, the Old West continues to capture the imagination as a wild and untamed frontier ready to be harnessed by those with the determination, courage and grit ...