Given the chance to interrogate one of history’s most famous figures, what would you ask? Speaking on the HistoryExtra ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

The Nazis loved the Bayeux Tapestry. They loved it so much that they tried (and failed) to steal it away to Germany at the ...

Medieval England was a dangerous place. Murder rates are estimated to have been between 20 to 50 times higher than today, ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

To be a samurai meant position and prestige, but it could all be taken away in an instant, plunging the once-proud warrior ...

The tale of a band of samurai who, after their master dies, take an oath to seek vengeance is an important story that offers ...

The toga has long been one of the most recognisable symbols of ancient Rome, so why have we been getting its history wrong?

Before the dodo, the notion of human-caused extinction was unimaginable. However, in the three and a half centuries since the dodo disappeared (the last widely accepted sighting was in 1662), the ...