How did a law passed by Elizabeth I turn fashion into welfare? Ruth Goodman explains the story behind one garment and the ...

The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully ...

Think of Roman engineering, and it might be the grandest feats that first come to mind: the towering aqueducts bringing water to towns and cities, the amphitheatres filled with cheering crowds, and ...

Art Deco became the defining style of the interwar years. But its bold glamour rested on a questionable patchwork of ...

Perhaps it’s because the medium is so well-suited to storytelling. Podcasts invite listeners into the past through conversation and narrative – and when done right, this can bring history to life in a ...

Speaking on her HistoryExtra Academy series on Tudor Life, historian Ruth Goodman explains how a nation without a standing ...

Elizabeth Vassall’s audacious deception highlights how wealth, slavery and patriarchy collided in Georgian Britain ...

What were the lives of women like throughout the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods? Modern archaeology is only just ...

A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish descent, Saladin was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (which ruled over modern-day Egypt and parts of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen) and was the first man at the time of ...