Russian President Vladimir Putin’s narrative of a shared Russian–Ukrainian origin in the Viking-founded Kievan Rus is having ...

Matilda of Flanders sits in the shadow of her more famous husband but, writes Tracy Borman, she was an able political player ...

On the HistoryExtra podcast, historian Steven Gunn reveals what coroners’ inquests tell us about everyday Tudor life, and how ...

Greek myths of the Amazons blended kernels of truth with male fantasy to create a legend that has lasted for millennia.

Duke William of Normandy, who would become known as William the Conqueror, arguably changed the course of English history more profoundly than any ruler before or since. Despite beginning life as a ...

One of the most powerful pieces of the medieval Christian toolkit was the claiming and repurposing of sacred pagan sites. Cathedrals, chapels and shrines were frequently built where polytheistic pagan ...

It’s true that the Vikings were formidable raiders, warriors and explorers – storming monasteries on the coasts of Britain, sailing rivers into the depths of eastern Europe and even journeying as far ...

How did the two men meet? Why did they come to blows, and why did England’s king die at the hands of a foreign invader? Few people knew the answers to those questions, and those who did were not ...

The destruction of Japan at the end of the Second World War evokes familiar images of horror; of mushroom clouds enveloping Hiroshima and Nagasaki, rising into the sky. But for months before the ...

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...