Cutting ties with continental Europe in around 3000 BC, ancient Britons abandoned innovation and shunned trade. Why did they ...

From ancient law codes to 20th-century psychoanalysis, the story of fatherhood is far stranger and more surprising than you ...

Australia tried to send a live platypus across U-boat-infested waters to Britain as a diplomatic gift. The mission, part ...

Both men solidified reputations as technological innovators, and on the HistoryExtra podcast, Professor Iwan Morus argues ...

In this HistoryExtra podcast series, travel journalist and history fan Paul Bloomfield virtually roams the streets and sites of great global metropolises in the company of a series of expert historian ...

A new academic study reveals how Cold War paranoia, space medicine, and germ theory collided in one of the most bizarre ...

Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

It’s not too often that medieval historians grab national headlines, but when you get an Oxford academic counting penises in a world-famous embroidery, you’re sure to arouse media attention. On ...

So, you’re a person living in the medieval period and you find yourself on the wrong side of the law, or simply on the wrong side of the powerful. What worries you most: being locked up in a cell, ...

Like many other facial hair styles, the moustache has a long and complicated history. In some periods it has symbolised manly strength, modernity and bravery; in others it was decried as an ...

History is written by the victors, it’s said. Certainly, much of what we know about the early story of Paris dates from the conquest of Gaul under Julius Caesar, who wrote about the capital of the ...

In November 1771, Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, handed his brother, George III, a note. In it he confessed his marriage to a young widow, Anne Horton (née Luttrell), in a secret ceremony.