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

Folklorist and historian Francis Young explains how the medieval church conquered Europe’s last pagans not only through force ...

Cleopatra persuaded Mark Antony to order the execution of her sister Arsinoe IV on the steps of one of antiquity’s greatest temples, breaking the sacred law of sanctuary and leaving behind a mystery t ...

Historian Eleanor Barraclough reveals the brutal challenges faced by Norse settlers in Greenland – a Viking world of fragile ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the orange sun arcs down toward the horizon, a lone cowboy rides into a dusty frontier town atop a weary horse. He saunters into a saloon, and soon – inevitably, and once again – is drawn into some ...

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 ...

Their competing ambitions and rivalry played no small part in the eventual end of Anglo-Saxon England, and the onset of the Norman Conquest. Tostig, long overshadowed by his brother Harold, would ...