For much of the 20th century, historians tended to imagine ordinary Romans as relatively cut off from long-distance trade. The assumption was that most people lived as subsistence farmers, producing ...

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The Odyssey is one of the most celebrated stories ever told, recounting the tale Greek hero Odysseus’s journey home from the Trojan War. It should have taken him weeks – and it would have done, had he ...

The star of Loki and The Night Manager hosts a retelling of the destruction of Pompeii – one that manages to make one of the ...

He has sailed to Troy with the coalition of Greek rulers determined to recover Helen, wife of Menelaus, after she was taken by the Trojan prince Paris. He has fought in a war that lasted ten years.

Did the Vikings chant about death, sex and masturbation while they rowed on the raiding missions that terrorised Britain and Europe between the eighth and 11th centuries? That’s a pertinent question ...

The year is 1969, and Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov has just become the first human to land on the moon. This moment marks a decisive victory for the Soviet Union and sparks a protracted space race ...

On 14 April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln, fresh from steering the country through the Civil War, was enjoying a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. During the performance, John Wilkes Booth, a ...

Slipping unseen beneath the Atlantic, German U-boats were a terrifying development in the naval battles of the Second World War. They threatened Britain’s supply lines and seemed to offer Nazi Germany ...

But beyond recounting the rise of Norman supremacy, what was the Bayeux Tapestry really for? Was it only an extraordinary work of propaganda, designed as a display of righteous power? Or was it ...

Few historical figures have been discussed and debated as much as Adolf Hitler. We have a wealth of primary source material available to us about his life, including his autobiographical manifesto ...

In the history of the presidents of the United States, James Garfield is too easily overlooked. It’s not hard to see why: his time in the presidential spotlight had been brief, emerging late as a ...