In theory, putting down the rebels of the First Jewish Revolt should have been easy for the mighty Roman empire. But ...
Edmund Ironside was an ill-fated king during a violent and turbulent time in the history of the Anglo-Saxons. But is the ...
But space travel is also a human endeavour. In the heavens as on Earth, that means it throws up stories that can be bizarre, ...
Have you ever sat around a dinner table or in a pub and rubbed your finger along the rim of a glass to make that eerie ...
As tensions build between the US and its long-term allies, historian Sam Edwards examines how the international military ...
More than a century after the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin’s decision to organise the Soviet state around national ...
When you think about the driving forces that contributed to progress in medieval Britain, you might think about the likes of ...
Before he was the monarch with six wives – two of whom he had beheaded – Henry VIII was a Tudor adonis: attractive and active ...
A fresh re-reading of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests that King Harold Godwinson didn’t race south by land after Stamford ...
Walk through a busy European town in the 14th century, and numerous powerful and distinct smells would assail your nostrils. Horses trot along, leaving heaps of dung in the streets. Loud market stalls ...
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