Explore the story of Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who prevented a potential nuclear catastrophe during the height of ...

Mary Wollstonecraft was a firebrand thinker of the late-18th century, whose writing proposed radical ideas about equality for ...

Across cultures, there have been countless deities representing war throughout history. Is Kratos, the main character in the ...

The biopic Lee, starring Kate Winslet, tells the story of the revered war photographer Lee Miller, exploring her unique lens ...

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Forty years ago, a BBC film, Threads, directed by Mick Jackson and written by Barry Hines, unflinchingly showed what would follow if a nuclear bomb was detonated over Sheffield. Threads still haunts ...

On 16 September 1620, a merchant ship, the Mayflower, sailed from England and made its way to the New World. On board were 102 men, women and children, half of whom (the ‘Saints’ or ‘Pilgrims’ as they ...

Dozens of nobles from across the Holy Roman Empire met for crisis talks on a summer’s day in 1184, but the proceedings ended ...

The earliest-known visible evidence of mass conflict between humans extends deep into the Mesolithic, around 13,400 years ago. Like it or not, warfare has been a part of the development of human ...

It’s often said that it feels like we, in the third decade of the 21st century, live in an ‘Orwellian’ age. Our likenesses and movements are captured by omnipresent CCTV cameras; our innermost ...

When the adoptive brothers Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus became co-rulers in AD 161, the Roman empire was enjoying a golden age of progress, prosperity and peace. For nearly 200 years – going back ...