Summer is the perfect time to lose yourself in a good book – and history lovers have plenty of new titles to choose from this ...

Historian Karen Jones uncovers the often overlooked role of women in building the American West – from driving wagon trains ...

From the deserts of Egypt to the arid mountains of western Iran, from the Mediterranean coast to the highlands of Anatolia, King Ashurbanipal’s Neo-Assyrian empire dominated the ancient Near East. In ...

Tudor history is so dominated by tales of towering tyrannical monarchs and European politics that you’d be forgiven for thinking the most common way to die in 16th-century England was to be beheaded ...

In 1940, with Nazi bombers looming over British cities and the threat of invasion ever-present, Frisch and Peierls’ findings ...

Traversing the landscape of medieval Europe, they sang of longing, power and – whether implicitly or explicitly – sex. They moved from castle to court, debated morals and aphrodisiacs, and ...

Historian Bettany Hughes reveals what growing up in the ancient Roman Empire was really like – from knucklebones and wooden ...

During the Second World War, thousands of Allied pilots were deployed on a mission so dangerous, and so overshadowed by the rest of the conflict, that many referred to themselves grimly by the acronym ...

In the Boyne Valley of eastern Ireland stands one of the world’s most fascinating prehistoric monuments: Newgrange. Centuries older than the Pyramids of Giza or Stonehenge, Newgrange is a large ...