Is there a difference between the Hitler salute and the Roman salute? Danny Bird explores the story of an instantly ...

How did a fifth-century princess unlucky in love become the Welsh patron saint of lovers? Lauren Good explores the life and ...

When did the Viking Age begin and end, and why is it so difficult to define? Explore when and how the era of Scandinavian ...

After a short illness, George V died on 20 January 1936. The following day, British Pathé described him as “more than a King, ...

The question of who owns Greenland rings throughout history, arguably beginning in the Viking Age. But since the Second World ...

By shooting an apple off his son’s head, William Tell inspired both the Swiss people to fight for independence and a ...

Make a bid at The Royal Mint’s latest trial pieces auction, and you could be in with a chance of owning some of the UK’s ...

In 1933, the authorities of the Soviet Union intended to turn a small tract of land in Western Siberia, called Nazino Island, into a settlement where the dregs of society could be forced to farm for ...

Imagine a US president who was highly intelligent and educated, who had a tremendous capacity for hard work, and who retained a very strong sense of personal morality. Surely those characteristics ...

Beginning with the first bishop of Rome, Saint Peter, one of Christ’s apostles, there have been 266 popes to date. The current resident of the Vatican is Pope Francis, who was elected to the Holy See ...

The SAS changed the way that the Allies fought the Second World War. A group of motley misfits whose origins lay in a spy’s propaganda exercise, these bearded ruffians started as joke and yet ...