A landmark US law passed more than 50 years ago helped build the world’s most successful national women’s football team.

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

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

Historian Helen Carr explores the disastrous 14th century, a time when famine, war, pestilence and rebellion took medieval ...

Historian Adrian Goldsworthy reveals the brutal training, bureaucratic grind and uncertain rewards of life in the Roman ...

During the Second World War, thousands of Allied pilots were deployed on a mission so dangerous, and so overshadowed by the rest of the conflict, that many referred to themselves grimly by the acronym ...

The Roman empire was by no means the largest in history: in fact 25 others have occupied a larger land mass either before or since. Yet very few can boast as wide-reaching an influence and impact. At ...

From the US assassination of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani to the ongoing case of the jailed mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Iran has scarcely been out of the headlines in recent months. But how ...

Medieval torturers knew what they were doing when it came to inflicting pain. In fact, their reputation has seen them credited over the centuries with devices that are more mythical than medieval.

The removal of monuments to controversial figures in countries around the world has sparked heated debates between politicians and activists. But should we use common moral standards of today as ...