New research on skeletons from Maiden Castle in Dorset casts doubt on theory of cemetery of Iron Age warriors killed by ...

Bought at auction and long dismissed as an unremarkable copy, a document in Harvard Law School’s archives has been dramatically reclassified as an extraordinarily rare original of the 1300 reissue of ...

Royal residences have been a hotbed of drama, violence and intrigue down the centuries. In our new Academy video series Royal Residences: Secrets and Scandals, historian Kate Williams delves deep into ...

As Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a status update on the loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the UK, David Musgrove ...

I spoke to a woman who had been outside the gates of Buckingham Palace on VE Day chanting: ‘We want the king!’ and later doing the conga in the street. That gave me a real idea of the sense of ...

On 22 November 1963, President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. At the time of his death, Kennedy had served fewer than three years as president, but within US politics, he was a ...

“Hitler has only got one ball, / Goring has two but very small, / Himmler is rather sim’lar, / But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.” This cheeky wartime ditty mocking the masculinity of Adolf ...