How did the Norse adventurers of the Viking Age impose themselves upon eastern Europe? Not with longships and raids, says one ...
Vlad III Dracula, the brutal warlord and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire, has long held a reputation as ...
Who was the legendary Viking warrior Thorkell the Tall, and precisely how tall was he? From his links with the Jomsvikings to ...
What was the Fenian Brotherhood in Netflix’s drama House of Guinness? How influential was it in 19th-century Ireland, and did ...
In the late 19th century, the face of the United States was transformed by industrialisation. Steel, oil and railroads ...
During the Second World War, Britain held funerals for enemy servicemen with swastika flags. This is how respect for the dead ...
Following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in July 2024, Matt Elton spoke to historian Adam IP Smith about the ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s narrative of a shared Russian–Ukrainian origin in the Viking-founded Kievan Rus is having ...
Britain’s wartime evacuation scheme uprooted millions, but the familiar images of children clutching gas masks hides a much ...
Emily Callaci discusses a bold – and controversial – feminist movement that campaigned for women to be paid for household ...
On the HistoryExtra podcast, historian Steven Gunn reveals what coroners’ inquests tell us about everyday Tudor life, and how ...
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