Personal connections and individual stories are important for humanising the atrocities of the Holocaust. Discover how the correspondence of Kurt Grelling provides powerful testimony about one of ...

Starting from 1066 with William the Conqueror (overrated), through to a postscript for Elizabeth II (good), he hurls a revisionist Molotov Cocktail into our historical thinking. How Can You Measure ...

The Titanic disaster is famous not only for the two-hour-forty-minute stately submerging of the ship into the icy water and the numerous human dramas that unfolded on board, but also for the breaking ...

When fishing boats were numerous, Scotland was a wonderful place to see them. Even now, it’s still possible to catch a hint of what used to be. Peter Drummond has roamed the coastlines and harbours of ...

Simon Farquhar’s new book, A Deafening Silence: Forgotten British Murders, led him down dark roads as he trudged the wintry countryside trying to understand forgotten tragedies and talking to those ...

The Royal Hospital Chelsea as a home for old soldiers has always been associated with warfare. The Second World War however represents a unique chapter in the history of the institution as the ...

Brimming with lies, hagiography and exaggeration! Elizabeth Gaskell’s sensational 1857 biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë continues to divide historians, critics and Brontë fans over 160 years ...

21st April marks the anniversary of the birth of English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë. While she lived only 38 years, her legacy – and her celebrity – have remained perennially present. Her 1847 ...

Following seven years of investigation and intelligence gathering, including archival searches around the world, Phase One of The Missing Princes Project is complete. The evidence uncovered suggests ...

In the medieval era, pitched battles were risky affairs; the work of years could be undone in a single day thanks to the vagaries of weather, terrain or simple bad luck. C.B. Hanley author of the ...

There is a need for definition, as spices have meant different things in different periods of history. ‘Spice’ is not a botanical term, but we can use botanical words to describe them. Today we might ...

Excavated cat bones and cat images on vases and coins are proof that cats were padding about southern Italy at the end of the fifth century BC. By the time we get to the Roman Empire, there must have ...