While circumcision was common in many ancient cultures, the Romans considered it undesirable. In certain parts of the Empire, ...

Gordon Cummins was a seemingly ordinary RAF airman. But amid the darkness of blackout-era London he became one of the city’s ...

Historian Simon Schama explains how close Britain came to complicity in the Holocaust, and what the bureaucracy of genocide ...

Tariffs and trade wars have hit the headlines in recent months as US president Donald Trump pursues aggressive economic ...

A hunger for glory, a sense of destiny, and an ego that knew no limits: The Rest is History’s Dominic Sandbrook explores how ...

The court-martial of Robert Newburgh was about more than just his alleged crime – it was a battle over power and masculinity ...

A bankrupt treasury, disastrous foreign policy and a civil war: this is the story of how Henry III lost control of his own ...

Join us for the first series of History’s Greatest Battles, where we’re heading back to the Roman empire.

In 1945, Sidney Bernstein was given the job of making a film from the raw footage taken by British soldiers at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He turned to Alfred Hitchcock for help. Martin ...

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The Illuminati is a name given to both a real secret society and a fictitious one. The latter has fuelled conspiracy theories for years, described as a secretive and mysterious worldwide organisation ...