Covering the years from 1936-56 and beginning with protests against Oswald Moseley’s march down Cable Street, Arnold Wesker’s semi-autobiographical state-of-the-nation play was first performed in 1958 ...

A love story between two prisoners at the worst of the Nazis’ concentration camps? The plot of the Tattooist of Auschwitz might be considered unduly light given its setting but, as Roger Moorhouse ...

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As well as being a printer, publisher, philosopher, inventor and Founding Father of America, Benjamin Franklin also found time to become a French fashion icon – and almost became a swimming teacher ...

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

Lauren Mackay is a historian specialising in Tudor England and the author of Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn (IB Tauris, 2018) Save 76% on the shop price when ...

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

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

A coloured lithograph of The Great Exhibition. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images) It was a magnificent spectacle that met the young queen as she arrived, cheered on by huge crowds, at the Crystal Palace in ...

Ask a group of people today what the 18th-century polymath Benjamin Franklin should be remembered for the most, and chances are that a variety of answers will come up. Was he primarily a man of words, ...