In the Georgian period, when same-sex couples could not marry, some queer men may have used adult adoption to create legal ...

For centuries, no one paid much notice to a small mound at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar. All that could be about to change ...

A pair of ancient post holes near Bulford, 5 kilometres from Stonehenge, appear to line up with the midsummer sunrise around 2,950 BC. Were people in the Stonehenge landscape marking the summer ...

In this four-part HistoryExtra series, Professor Adam IP Smith examines how 13 British colonies became the United States of ...

The Ladies of Llangollen built a life together in 18th century Wales, becoming famous for their shared home, joint identity ...

Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston, a three-part docudrama premiering in July 2026, follows the actor as he works alongside archaeologists, historians, geologists and disaster experts to ...

Who was the real St David? St David was a preacher likely born in Wales in the early sixth century, who became a renowned leading religious figure in the early Welsh church. According to legend, he ...

“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 ...

The battle of the Boyne was fought on 1 July 1690, between forces of the deposed and exiled Catholic king, James VII of Scotland and II of England, and the Dutch Protestant new king, William II of ...

Before the existence of humans, before the cosmos, before the gods, there was the Ginnungagap: a gaping, primordial void. On one side of this yawning nothingness was an icy realm called Niflheim, and ...

In 2007, Time magazine asserted that the Bible “has done more to shape literature, history, entertainment, and culture than any book ever written.” With phrases like “an eye for an eye” and “thou ...

Children: 10, including Francis II of France; Charles IX of France; Henry III of France; Margaret of Valois and Francis, Duke of Anjou Legacy: Catherine de Medici’s legacy is controversial. On the one ...