Want to know more about Jane Austen, her novels and the period she lived in? Lauren Good has curated a selection of essential ...

There have been many examples of pointed hats in history, but it remains unclear how any of them became a must-wear for the ...

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a grieving nation turned towards spiritualism in the hope of seeing the dead once ...

Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...

From ritual parades to blood-soaked duels, explore a single day in the life (and death) of the most brutal entertainment in ...

Giuseppe Garibaldi’s courage and charisma made him a hero of Italian unification in the 19th century. Here’s how he became a ...

In a kingdom recently divided by faith, Elizabeth I’s government turned to espionage to defend the Protestant crown. This is ...

Test your knowledge with our general knowledge weekly history quiz ...

In the final episode of the series, the classicist and historian heads north to the Baltic republic of Estonia. Highlights include a visit to a laboratory where a 10,000-year-old chunk of chewed tar ...

Explore how modern Britons sought signs of divine order in a collapsing world – from searching snails’ shells to eating moles ...

What did the samurai of Japan actually do? It’s a simple question, but one that is surprisingly hard to answer. In the first stages of the samurai era, from the 12th century and up to the late 15th ...