Elizabeth Vassall’s audacious deception highlights how wealth, slavery and patriarchy collided in Georgian Britain ...
What were the lives of women like throughout the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods? Modern archaeology is only just ...
Long before Blair Waldorf ruled Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Alva Vanderbilt was orchestrating social coups, courting ...
From the importance of female pleasure to why you might need ribbons in the bedroom, historian Ruth Goodman explores the ...
They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.
Andrew Carnegie stood at just 4 feet 10 inches tall, yet this Scottish immigrant reshaped American industry and philanthropy during the United States’ most explosive era of growth ...
Sixteenth-century England was a nation permanently on guard. Dynastic wars had only recently ended with the rise of Henry VII, and the prospect of foreign invasion loomed large in the minds of Tudor ...
Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once ...
Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...
In the winter of 1386, a French noblewoman by the name of Marguerite de Carrouges found herself at the centre of a criminal case that electrified Paris, captivated the king and culminated in blood ...
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