Hocktide was a medieval festival that used to involve tying people up to raise money for the church; today, its modern ...

The violent death of James III of Scotland in 1488 shocked a kingdom. More than five centuries later, the killer remains ...

The tragic case of Margaret Fernseed reveals how early modern Britain treated women who killed not as criminals, but as ...

Did JFK’s extra-marital affairs risk national security? While some might argue that a president’s private life is irrelevant ...

When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

While circumcision was common in many ancient cultures, the Romans considered it undesirable. In certain parts of the Empire, ...

From a shagpile in the shower to gas-fuelled irons, Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan lifts the lid on Britain’s strangest domestic ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Bletchley Park’s research historian, Dr David Kenyon, reveals how staff reacted to ...

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“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

VE Day, 8 May 1945, was a day of celebration for the Allies. But in Germany, it was a prelude to a period of huge uncertainty. A documentary that draws on the memoirs of ordinary Germans – ranging ...