The fourth season of hit Regency period drama Bridgerton tells the story of second son Benedict’s relationship with Sophie, a lady’s maid in disguise. But could a real romance like this have ever had ...
More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...
As trench warfare paralysed the Western Front, an experimental vehicle pointed the way toward a different type of warfare – ...
Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...
A peace treaty ended the Mexican–American War in February 1848 and officially left California as new American territory.
Cats might have been sacred in ancient Egypt, but they were far from cherished pets. Discover why our assumptions about their ...
The struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism came to a head in England when Maria of Modena gave birth to an heir with ...
Extravagant clothes and celebrity culture defined Georgian Britain. Alice examines how fashion, fame and vanity became irresistible targets for caricature. Grotesque, imaginative and influential, ...
He is one of the greatest writers of all time, and our longing to know as much as we can about him continues. We know that William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to John and Mary Shakespeare of ...
In the 1990s, oral historian Alan Dein received a commission from the Steel Industry Project. His task was to record the voices of workers in a declining industry. Tough times seemed to lie ahead.
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