When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

From a shagpile in the shower to gas-fuelled irons, Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan lifts the lid on Britain’s strangest domestic ...

While circumcision was common in many ancient cultures, the Romans considered it undesirable. In certain parts of the Empire, ...

Gordon Cummins was a seemingly ordinary RAF airman. But amid the darkness of blackout-era London he became one of the city’s ...

Historian Simon Schama explains how close Britain came to complicity in the Holocaust, and what the bureaucracy of genocide ...

Join us for the first series of History’s Greatest Battles, where we’re heading back to the Roman empire.

But according to historian and The Rest is History podcast host Dominic Sandbrook, Nelson’s status as a uniquely exceptional commander isn’t a mystery. It’s a matter, says Sandbrook, of viewing him as ...