Witnesses described a pistol and a bloodied body. Soviet investigators pointed to poison. The evidence surrounding Hitler’s death reveals how his final moments became another battleground between the ...
An average life expectancy of around 30 conceals enormous differences in medieval lifespans. Some people reached their eighties and beyond – but surviving long enough to grow old depended heavily on ...
Hugh Jackman dons the mantle of medieval England’s most famous folk hero in The Death of Robin Hood. Emily Briffett spoke to him to find out more about how he brought the mythic outlaw of the Middle A ...
Gritty and grounded, The Death of Robin Hood stars Hugh Jackman as the legendary outlaw, now gravely wounded after a lifetime of violence and offered a final chance at redemption. Speaking to writer ...
Cosmo Jarvis stars as Wat Tyler in The Uprising, the story of a huge revolt in England in the 14th century. Possibly a former ...
When confronted with the Viking foe who had threatened to take his land – and his life – King Alfred of Wessex chose to forgive his defeated Norse opponent ...
Politically embarrassing to politically powerful: how the Bayeux Tapestry became a tool of diplomacy
The Bayeux Tapestry was created to justify William the Conqueror’s invasion of England – but its political message may have been outdated almost as soon as it was finished. As the embroidery goes on ...
For most people in 14th-century England, home meant a smoky, crowded hall where eating, working and sleeping all happened in the same shared space. Historian Ian Mortimer reveals what a night under yo ...
Perhaps it’s because the medium is so well-suited to storytelling. Podcasts invite listeners into the past through conversation and narrative – and when done right, this can bring history to life in a ...
John F Kennedy holds a prestigious position in the American imagination – a man of wartime heroism, soaring rhetoric and youthful charm who embodied postwar optimism. It’s an image made even more ...
Aethelred II – best known by the epithet, ‘the Unready’ – was king of the English for two periods, from AD 978 to 1013, and a brief second spell from 1014 to 1016. His combined reign of nearly 38 ...
A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish descent, Saladin was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (which ruled over modern-day Egypt and parts of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen) and was the first man at the time of ...
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