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 ...
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.
Long before Blair Waldorf ruled Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Alva Vanderbilt was orchestrating social coups, courting ...
Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once ...
Andrew Carnegie stood at just 4 feet 10 inches tall, yet this Scottish immigrant reshaped American industry and philanthropy ...
The Norse peoples of the Viking Age held much of western Europe tightly in their grip thanks to their imperious command of the sea. Their prowess as seafarers let them strike their targets at speed ...
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It’s four centuries since composer Nicholas Lanier (1588–1666) was appointed as the first Master of the King’s Music. Lanier also put in place the foundations of the Royal Collection, which now ...
Margaret Campbell, the famously beautiful Duchess of Argyll, had been a celebrity – and a source of scandal – from even before her debutante days. But she would be remembered for just one thing: the ...
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