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 ...

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

The annual solstices were so important to ancient Britons that they intentionally arranged some of the enormous stones at Stonehenge to align with the rising midsummer sun – and its winter equivalent.

The year is 1969, and Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov has just become the first human to land on the moon. This moment marks a decisive victory for the Soviet Union and sparks a protracted space race ...

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 ...

James Bond, with his shaken martinis and exotic escapes, is widely recognised as fiction’s most enduring spy. But his creator, Ian Fleming, didn’t conjure up Bond’s outlandish adventures from thin air ...

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 ...

A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish descent, Saladin was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (which ruled over modern-day Egypt and parts of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen) and was the first man at the time of ...