Historian Linda Paterson explores the rise of the troubadours – the poetic performers who turned love, politics and desire ...

Historian Bettany Hughes reveals what growing up in the ancient Roman Empire was really like – from knucklebones and wooden ...

When Old Norse explorers reached North America, they made history. But their brief, violent encounter with its indigenous ...

This is how a royal Frankish dynasty turned flowing locks into a political weapon, and why cutting them could mean deadly ...

Behind the myth of the Minotaur lies the ancient Minoan civilisation – a culture steeped in ritual, rich in symbolism, and ...

Journalist and author Phil Tinline explores how a fake 1960s document convinced millions – and reveals what it says about ...

Historian Tom Holland uncovers how politics, myth and maternal ambition collided in the scandalous reign of the Roman emperor ...

Lauren Good is the digital content producer at HistoryExtra. She joined the team in 2022 after completing an MA in Creative ...

Bethlem Royal Hospital was England’s first asylum for the treatment of mental illness, and for many years a place of inhumane conditions, the nickname of which – Bedlam – became a byword for mayhem or ...

Portrayed by the Romans as savage and uncivilised – and with a supposed penchant for human sacrifice – the Celts had been resident in the British Isles for many centuries prior to the invasion of ...

Kathleen Burk: “What was notable was that in the 20th century the superpowers forebore actually coming to blows” Cold War is a term denoting the period between 1945, when the US and UK governments ...

Cleopatra's relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony had fundamental consequences for both Egypt and Rome ...