When did you first hear about Sophie Scholl? While I was doing research for my Nazi-era novels about a fictional German ...

One of the earliest Norse myths depicts the so-called god of thunder in women’s clothing. Far from undermining Thor’s power, ...

Introduced in the wake of the Norman Conquest, the murdrum fine was meant to protect Norman settlers from revenge killings.

Horses are instinctively wired to run from danger. So how did medieval armies train them to thunder towards enemy lines ...

In the early stages of the First World War, Brits and Germans came together on the frontlines to pause the fighting for ...

In an era when candidates were expected to remain silent, detached and above the chase for votes, James Garfield’s improvised ...

Introducing Life Lessons from History, packed with advice from the past to help us live better, happier, healthier, or more ...

But beyond recounting the rise of Norman supremacy, what was the Bayeux Tapestry really for? Was it only an extraordinary work of propaganda, designed as a display of righteous power? Or was it ...

With the benefit of hindsight, it seems odd that anyone in Britain would have wanted to make friends with Adolf Hitler, the most recognisable face of evil in the 20th century. But in the 1930s, many ...

The Roman empire was by no means the largest in history: in fact 25 others have occupied a larger land mass either before or since. Yet very few can boast as wide-reaching an influence and impact. At ...

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 ...