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 ...

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

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

Dorset's Maiden Castle was the site of an infamous Roman massacre. Or was it? New research on the skeletal remains of Iron ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, we launched our '30 under 30' competition in collaboration with historian, presenter and author Alice Loxton. Alfred is Assistant Curator of Historic Buildings at HM Tower of London ...

This was “the real inner sanctum of royal life, where only very few courtiers were allowed to be,” says Ellis. “The bedchamber was somewhere where everybody wanted to be if they wanted to get ahead.” ...

History is written by the victors, it’s said. Certainly, much of what we know about the early story of Paris dates from the conquest of Gaul under Julius Caesar, who wrote about the capital of the ...

One curious and less well-known impact of the Mongol empire’s explosive expansion was a huge surge in the hunting of owls – almost to the edge of extinction in some regions. And it all stemmed from a ...

Early one misty morning in 1855, Henry Mayhew and John Binny stepped aboard a dilapidated ship moored on the Thames. Its large wooden hull was studded with barred portholes; instead of flags, a ...