More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...

Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

A peace treaty ended the Mexican–American War in February 1848 and officially left California as new American territory.

Cats might have been sacred in ancient Egypt, but they were far from cherished pets. Discover why our assumptions about their ...

Extravagant clothes and celebrity culture defined Georgian Britain. Alice examines how fashion, fame and vanity became irresistible targets for caricature. Grotesque, imaginative and influential, ...

The struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism came to a head in England when Maria of Modena gave birth to an heir with ...

After many centuries, the Bayeux Tapestry is returning to Britain in 2026. But as the loan draws closer, new information ...

What do the crimes that women were charged with in a post-medieval Scotland reveal about the lives they lived?

The people of ancient Rome lived in a wide range of housing, from grand urban mansions to crowded flats and makeshift dwellings attached to shops. Where and how someone lived depended on geography, ...

At a glance, the fall of the Aztec empire in the early 16th century seems like one of history’s clearest before-and-after moments: a powerful empire crushed almost instantly by a handful of Spanish ...

It’s not too often that medieval historians grab national headlines, but when you get an Oxford academic counting penises in a world-famous embroidery, you’re sure to arouse media attention. On ...