A new academic study reveals how Cold War paranoia, space medicine, and germ theory collided in one of the most bizarre ...

Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

In early modern Britain, neighbourly gossip was the backbone of a court system that turned moments of privacy into public ...

Emily Hobhouse revealed the truth about Britain’s brutal treatment of Boer civilians during the South African War. She was ...

The Fountain of Youth is most associated with the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León, but people have believed in ...

Amazons, werewolves and unnamed traders: historian Owen Rees uncovers the lives hidden at the edges of ancient empires – and ...

Joan Smith describes how the powerful women of ancient Rome’s first imperial dynasty were smeared as adulterers, poisoners ...

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Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first locomotive to be officially clocked as travelling at 100mph. Later, the story of Scotsman’s preservation against the odds captured the imagination of ...

Iran enjoys one of the richest historical lineages of any modern state stretching back several thousand years. This history can be broadly divided into three epochs: the pre-Islamic ancient period ...

What was the Cold War and why do we refer to it as such? To put it simply, the Cold War was a political, ideological and economic conflict that broke out in the years after the Second World War and ...

As Britain’s longest-reigning monarch – a rule of 68 years and counting – it’s fair to say that Queen Elizabeth II has probably seen it all. Prime ministers have come and gone; the royal family itself ...