Thomas Cromwell’s final six months were a Greek tragedy of hubris and political venom, all presided over by a tyrannical king ...

Historians Tim Thornton and Tracy Borman tell our podcast editor Ellie Cawthorne about a remarkable new discovery that may ...

There are plenty of other contenders for worst Roman Emperor – Nero and Commodus for example – but Caligula's mad reign sets a high standard. After a promising start to his reign he seems to have set ...

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“Tory spending cuts send us back to the misery of the Victorian workhouse,” cried a Mirror headline in 2010. Workhouses were “bleak, grimly austere and oppressive”, wrote the author of a study of one ...

Founded in 1954, Lew Grade’s ITC produced a string of hit dramas that are still repeated today, including, The Persuaders!, The Saint and cult classic The Prisoner. ITC also bankrolled Gerry ...

The Industrial Revolution caused a dramatic shift in women’s roles in society. Before industrialisation, the household would have been the centre of production, and women’s work largely confined to ...

In this three-part series exclusively available to members of HistoryExtra, Janina Ramirez, a leading popular historian, offers a fresh look at the medieval world through the women usually written out ...

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator makes certain you know exactly who Maximus Decimus Meridius is: “Commander of the armies of the north, general of the Felix Legions. Loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus ...

The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 will never be considered one of the world’s significant conflicts; it wasn’t even the biggest for the British during that decade, with the Second Boer War coming a few ...

A skilled and courageous frontiersman who became a politician; an outspoken and popular politician who was transformed into an American folk hero; a homespun storytelling folk hero who was later known ...