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

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

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

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 ...

This new game flips the script on what you may have come to expect from war-based interactive experiences. Of course, war has long been a source of inspiration for video game designers, but even if ...

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

Inscribed on the stone fireplace of the State Dining Room of the White House are the words: “I pray to Heaven bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May ...

The sight of a hot air balloon was a popular Victorian spectacle, so the quiet scenes on 5 September 1862 would have made for a curious sight. On the outskirts of the Black Country town of ...

To watch the 1984 movie Amadeus, with a star turn from Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the immature, lewd, debauched young man on screen – complete with ...

The term ‘Greek life’ has little to do with ancient Greece or its long history – so forget about the temples and city states, the philosophers and warriors, the mythologies and experimental theatre.