For centuries, no one paid much notice to a small mound at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar. All that could be about to change ...

The United States of America looms large as one of the most powerful countries in the world – politically, culturally, and economically. It dominates headlines, shapes global debates, and through the ...

In the Georgian period, when same-sex couples could not marry, some queer men may have used adult adoption to create legal ...

When we think about queer love in the past, we might assume that it was necessarily secretive and short-term. But the Ladies of Llangollen show that this wasn’t always the case. And people in the past ...

The annual solstices were so important to ancient Britons that they intentionally arranged some of the enormous stones at Stonehenge to align with the rising midsummer sun – and its winter equivalent.

Duke William of Normandy, who would become known as William the Conqueror, arguably changed the course of English history more profoundly than any ruler before or since. Despite beginning life as a ...

At the height of the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union vied for any advantage they could find. And between the various proxy wars and games of economic brinkmanship, the CIA unleashed its most ...

In 1900, as the Victorian era drew to a close, a 40-year-old British woman boarded a South African train loaded with 12 tons of relief supplies. She was heading into the middle of a brutal conflict ...

It’s not too often that medieval historians grab national headlines, but when you get an Oxford academic counting penises in a world-famous embroidery, you’re sure to arouse media attention. On ...

Aethelred II – best known by the epithet, ‘the Unready’ – was king of the English for two periods, from AD 978 to 1013, and a brief second spell from 1014 to 1016. His combined reign of nearly 38 ...