Rare early 20th-century lithographs show how scientific art and colonial extraction combined to recreate India’s avifauna ...

The idea that a battle might alter the course of history, though first popularised in the 19th century, is not without foundation. For as one writer remarked a generation after 1066, ‘French customs ...

Gold played such a central role in Asante identity that the Asantehene’s divine power was held to reside in a stool made of gold that descended from the heavens. To be crowned was to be ‘enstooled’, ...

West Yorkshire, where the original “Wuthering Heights” was written, offers a window into the forces that are disrupting British politics.

A dusty artifact may be the key to solving one of true crime’s oldest mysteries.

Fans of Scottish history and historical dramas are in for a treat as a film about a pair of real serial killers in Edinburgh ...

The copy of one of the nation's foundational documents almost never sees the light of day. The museum is making an exception ...

From Gisele Pelicot's brave survival story to Francis Spufford's magical wartime London, our guide features this week's most ...

As the historian points out, only Queen Charlotte, who ascended the throne in 1761, favored the corsets and poofy skirts made popular in the earlier 18th century. The spinoff series, Queen Charlotte: ...

Landlords and Middlemen in Eighteenth-century Duhallow by John O’Regan discusses the so-called Rockite rebellion (1820-24). This was a large-scale insurrection of up to 2,000 rebels threatening the ...

What technologies came about thanks to the Great War? Learn all about the massive technological leaps forward from the First World War.

Far removed from the upheaval that marked its historic end, this latest shutdown brings a subdued conclusion to a brand that ...