The ghost of Mark Smeaton looms large in Shardlake, the Tudor murder-mystery drama now streaming on Disney+. Who was Smeaton, ...

When, why and how did Neanderthals die out? This pivotal moment in human evolution is still contested by archaeologists, and ...

A love story between two prisoners at the worst of the Nazis’ concentration camps? The plot of the Tattooist of Auschwitz ...

Face of the $100 bill, US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin was the architect of the alliance with France that helped secure ...

In 1517, a mob terrorised the streets of London and took up arms against foreigners. Why did they turn to violence? And what ...

Tudor crime drama Shardlake features a disabled protagonist in a position of power – but what was the lot for real people ...

As well as being a printer, publisher, philosopher, inventor and Founding Father of America, Benjamin Franklin also found ...

First published in German in 2010, Eva Braun: Life with Hitler tells the story of Braun's 14‑year relationship with Adolf Hitler and challenges the view that she was little more than an innocent ...

Johannes Bückler, also known as Schinderhannes, still has plenty of fans today who see him as the ‘German Robin Hood’. Posterity has painted him as a loveable rogue breaking the law for good and even ...

With its status as a Roman city made immortal by the disastrous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, Pompeii has remained a source of public fascination for centuries, and endures as strongly as ever.