With conflicting advice and endless new trends, it can feel hard to keep up with the modern health and wellness space. But ideas about how to live a healthy life are nothing new. Thousands of years ...

As well as creating new regulations on faith, Henry VIII’s 16th-century government also decided which kinds of knowledge were ...

Hitler’s U-boats were a feared component of his naval strategy during the Second World War. But what was life aboard these ...

Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...

Before the Cold War hardened into coups and counterinsurgency, the United States backed reformist governments across Latin ...

For most people in Tudor England, an ordinary diet was more structured – and often more varied – than we might expect ...

As much as the Second World War was determined by soldiers exchanging gunfire on the ground, it was also a war of logistics. Tanks were a weapon that demonstrated that fact clearly. Their battlefield ...

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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 ...

Andrew Roberts: "If we topple Nelson, what do we do about the pyramids, built at least in part by slave labour?" Although it is completely illogical, ahistorical and unfair to natural justice to judge ...

So, you’re a person living in the medieval period and you find yourself on the wrong side of the law, or simply on the wrong side of the powerful. What worries you most: being locked up in a cell, ...