The star of Loki and The Night Manager hosts a retelling of the destruction of Pompeii – one that manages to make one of the ...

Ancient Greece had a rich panoply of deities and making sense of the web of family trees can be challenging. Matt Doherty ...

Over the past few weeks, Norway’s World Cup squad has captured the imagination of football fans around the globe with its ...

On 30 April 1945, as Allied forces closed in on Berlin from both east and west, Adolf Hitler went into his private study in the underground Führerbunker and shot himself in the right temple. An all-or ...

David Musgrove has spent nearly two decades following the extraordinary campaign to bring the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain. But ...

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What was the Falklands War? The Falklands War saw Britain and Argentina battle for control of the Falkland Islands – a tiny archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean made up of two main islands (dubbed ...

She occupies a unique place in British history: the subject of great scandal and notoriety, who was denigrated as “a famous adulteress” and an “abominable enchantress”, she was the mistress and friend ...

Historians and archaeologists have long speculated on the reasons for crossroads burials. Perhaps it was the nearest resting place the deceased would get to any sort of religious symbol. It may also ...

Before the existence of humans, before the cosmos, before the gods, there was the Ginnungagap: a gaping, primordial void. On one side of this yawning nothingness was an icy realm called Niflheim, and ...

In 1066, as everybody knows, the Normans invaded England. That most engaging of all medieval sources, the Bayeux Tapestry, shows them landing their horses at Pevensey in Sussex and racing to occupy ...