From exploding tinned food to covert assaults and code-breaking schemes, Ian Fleming’s real-life wartime exploits were just ...

From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

Two rare Roman cavalry swords discovered in a Gloucestershire field have sparked the excavation of a previously unknown Iron ...

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...

A supernaturally athletic ghost is alleged to have menaced the towns and cities of 19th-century England. Able to spew fire ...

The eldest of the Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford turned the eccentricities of her family and social class into sharp, ...

Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became ...

Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...

Around 3000 BC, while continental Europe embraced technological breakthroughs such as metallurgy and wheeled vehicles, the people of the British Isles – the Neolithic farming communities who would ...

More than six years since Professor George Garnett totted up the depictions of male genitalia in the famous Bayeux Tapestry – causing a media storm in the process – and he has no regrets. Speaking to ...

War Plan Red (a reference to the British redcoats of the American War of Independence) was further subdivided, depending on where in the world a potential war might break out. Ruby referred to India, ...

Exposing the vulnerabilities of the Roman state, the Antonine Plague struck across an approximate 15-year period, from AD 165 to 180. Outbreaks decimated the Roman population, economy, and military, ...