From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...

A supernaturally athletic ghost is alleged to have menaced the towns and cities of 19th-century England. Able to spew fire ...

The eldest of the Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford turned the eccentricities of her family and social class into sharp, ...

Drawn from the British aristocracy to the heart of Hitler’s inner circle, Unity Mitford’s life was a disturbing collision of ...

Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became ...

Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...

“They don’t think in terms of vitamins,” she explains. Instead, she says, “they’re trying to pay attention to what food seems to do to the body.” The conclusions might sound strange now, but they were ...

Guðrún was pregnant by her husband Bolli, though their marriage was not happy. After a series of taunts and insults played out between Guðrún, Bolli and Kjartan, Bolli had participated in the murder ...

Around 3000 BC, while continental Europe embraced technological breakthroughs such as metallurgy and wheeled vehicles, the people of the British Isles – the Neolithic farming communities who would ...

When we think of fatherhood, it’s easy to picture familiar roles: the breadwinner, the disciplinarian, the provider. But the history of fatherhood stretches back thousands of years and is full of ...