Cutting ties with continental Europe in around 3000 BC, ancient Britons abandoned innovation and shunned trade. Why did they ...

From ancient law codes to 20th-century psychoanalysis, the story of fatherhood is far stranger and more surprising than you ...

Australia tried to send a live platypus across U-boat-infested waters to Britain as a diplomatic gift. The mission, part ...

Both men solidified reputations as technological innovators, and on the HistoryExtra podcast, Professor Iwan Morus argues ...

In this HistoryExtra podcast series, travel journalist and history fan Paul Bloomfield virtually roams the streets and sites of great global metropolises in the company of a series of expert historian ...

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

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 ...

In 1930, the United States war department approved a secret plan that mapped out a course of action for a hypothetical war with Britain. Its codename: War Plan Red. Yes, the two nations were allies, ...

The earliest-known visible evidence of mass conflict between humans extends deep into the Mesolithic, around 13,400 years ago. Like it or not, warfare has been a part of the development of human ...

What was the difference between suffragists and suffragettes? A key difference between suffragists and suffragettes is that while the suffragists used largely peaceful methods such as lobbying, the ...

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.” ...

Like many other facial hair styles, the moustache has a long and complicated history. In some periods it has symbolised manly strength, modernity and bravery; in others it was decried as an ...