Want to know more about Jane Austen, her novels and the period she lived in? Lauren Good has curated a selection of essential ...
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a grieving nation turned towards spiritualism in the hope of seeing the dead once ...
There have been many examples of pointed hats in history, but it remains unclear how any of them became a must-wear for the ...
Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...
From ritual parades to blood-soaked duels, explore a single day in the life (and death) of the most brutal entertainment in ...
In a kingdom recently divided by faith, Elizabeth I’s government turned to espionage to defend the Protestant crown. This is ...
In the turbulent Republican Party of the late 1870s and early 1880s, Roscoe Conkling loomed as the hard-edged master of ...
Giuseppe Garibaldi’s courage and charisma made him a hero of Italian unification in the 19th century. Here’s how he became a ...
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In the final episode of the series, the classicist and historian heads north to the Baltic republic of Estonia. Highlights include a visit to a laboratory where a 10,000-year-old chunk of chewed tar ...
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