The ancient Romans were pioneers in many aspects of medicine, but their treatments and surgeries were often painful, gruesome ...

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 ...

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

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

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Bletchley Park’s Research Historian, Dr David Kenyon, reveals how staff reacted to the momentous occasion all those years ago ...

Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima: three names that have gone down in infamy; bywords for the nightmare scenarios that can occur when the production of nuclear power goes disastrously wrong.

Aethelred II – best known by the epithet, ‘the Unready’ – was king of the English for two periods, from AD 978 to 1013, and a brief second spell from 1014 to 1016. His combined reign of nearly 38 ...