Summer is the perfect time to lose yourself in a good book – and history lovers have plenty of new titles to choose from this ...

Historian Karen Jones uncovers the often overlooked role of women in building the American West – from driving wagon trains ...

Historian Selena Wisnom explores how Ashurbanipal, the last great ruler of Assyria, combined calculated brutality with an ...

Tudor history is so dominated by tales of towering tyrannical monarchs and European politics that you’d be forgiven for thinking the most common way to die in 16th-century England was to be beheaded ...

Physicist Frank Close traces how British science – and fear of a Nazi bomb – lit the fuse for the nuclear age ...

Traversing the landscape of medieval Europe, they sang of longing, power and – whether implicitly or explicitly – sex. They moved from castle to court, debated morals and aphrodisiacs, and ...

Historian Bettany Hughes reveals what growing up in the ancient Roman Empire was really like – from knucklebones and wooden ...

This is how a royal Frankish dynasty turned flowing locks into a political weapon, and why cutting them could mean deadly ...

During the Second World War, thousands of Allied pilots were deployed on a mission so dangerous, and so overshadowed by the rest of the conflict, that many referred to themselves grimly by the acronym ...