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 ...
Long before Blair Waldorf ruled Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Alva Vanderbilt was orchestrating social coups, courting ...
They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.
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 ...
House of Guinness’s set-up may be billed as a Succession-style battle between four aristocratic siblings – but behind the (much-elaborated) story of the family lies an Ireland simmering with unrest ...
In the late 19th century, the face of the United States was transformed by industrialisation. Steel, oil and railroads fuelled an age of tycoons – men who built vast fortunes while reshaping the ...
The late Anglo-Saxon period was defined by ever-shifting struggles for supremacy. Across Northern Europe, chaos collided with opportunity, and Thorkell the Tall was among the many figures who set ...
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