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 ...

They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.

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 ...

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 ...