Introducing Life Lessons from History, packed with advice from the past to help us live better, happier, healthier, or more ...
In an era when candidates were expected to remain silent, detached and above the chase for votes, James Garfield’s improvised ...
A seemingly simple question opens up difficult debates about ancient Roman beauty ideals and social hierarchy, and reveals ...
A new theory proposes that the Bayeux Tapestry was designed to deliver moral messages to medieval monks over dinner ...
Two near-fatal attacks on Saladin by the Nizari Ismailis reveal a Middle Eastern landscape far more complex than the usual ...
The Spanish conquest might have toppled the Aztec imperial state with startling speed, but unpicking precisely what ‘collapse ...
Henry VIII planned a monumental tomb to match his power and legacy. Instead, the king who reshaped England’s relationship with Rome now lies beneath a small, easily missed slab. Here’s how three Tudor ...
Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible for modern people to imagine ...
Margaret Campbell, the famously beautiful Duchess of Argyll, had been a celebrity – and a source of scandal – from even before her debutante days. But she would be remembered for just one thing: the ...
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