Showman and psychic researcher Harry Price turned Borley Rectory into a national sensation, and its infamy as a haunted house ...

How did a law passed by Elizabeth I turn fashion into welfare? Ruth Goodman explains the story behind one garment and the ...

The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully ...

Art Deco became the defining style of the interwar years. But its bold glamour rested on a questionable patchwork of ...

Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power ...

Jane Winters: Records and sources now come in a whole range of formats. In some cases, they are very familiar analogue sources that have become digital, whereas in others they are in a completely new ...

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

Before the existence of humans, before the cosmos, before the gods, there was the Ginnungagap: a gaping, primordial void. On one side of this yawning nothingness was an icy realm called Niflheim, and ...

Frogmore Cottage, set in the grounds of Frogmore House, is part of the Frogmore estate in Windsor, Berkshire. Frogmore is situated around half a mile south of Windsor Castle, within Home Park (the ...

Elizabeth II (1926–2022) became queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 6 February 1952 following the death of her father, King George VI (1895–1952). Known for her efforts to modernise the ...