How did a law passed by Elizabeth I turn fashion into welfare? Ruth Goodman explains the story behind one garment and the ...
The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...
Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully ...
Think of Roman engineering, and it might be the grandest feats that first come to mind: the towering aqueducts bringing water to towns and cities, the amphitheatres filled with cheering crowds, and ...
It remains one of the most glamorous architectural styles in history, instantly recognisable in landmarks like New York’s Chrysler Building, constructed in 1928. It evokes images of glittering ...
This list of the best history podcasts will pluck you from the present and send you on an auditory voyage through the past ...
Speaking on her HistoryExtra Academy series on Tudor Life, historian Ruth Goodman explains how a nation without a standing ...
Elizabeth Vassall’s audacious deception highlights how wealth, slavery and patriarchy collided in Georgian Britain ...
Is there any better way to understand the deadly politics and high drama of the Tudor era than through the lens of their audacious romantic entanglements? “[Sex] was seriously important to people in ...
The Phoenicians founded one of antiquity’s greatest Mediterranean powers. An ambitious and powerful network of seafaring traders along the eastern Mediterranean coast, they built a commercial empire ...
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