When he was captured by the Nazis in 1944, George Lascelles – the eldest nephew of King George VI – became one of Colditz ...
Grown in India and sold into China, opium generated substantial revenues for British rule – and much more Lin Zexu was a ...
An early medieval text describes rituals intended to protect pregnancies and address the loss of a child. Historian Elinor ...
History's Greatest Dishes serves up a feast of facts about some of the past's most remarkable delicacies. Expect culinary ...
Country and town dwellers alike rose up to protest new taxes imposed by the crown and its government. The poll taxes were widely resented as unfair, but it was largely the behaviour of the royal ...
On 30 April 1945, as Soviet troops fought their way through Berlin, Adolf Hitler’s world had contracted to a bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery, the headquarters of his government. The dictator who ...
Throughout history, the usual answer has been: without mercy. Take two examples. In AD 70, Roman forces crushed the First Jewish Revolt and retook Jerusalem, devastating the city, destroying the ...
The Bayeux Tapestry is being displayed in the UK as part of a landmark exhibition at the British Museum in London. The embroidery is normally housed at the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy, but a ...
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