Hilary Mitchell

Hilary Mitchell is a journalist with a Masters degree in Classics from Edinburgh University, where she specialised in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of Greece.

An outline of a woman sitting at a typewriter is placed over three newspaper clippings

From maniacal horses to bat-men on the moon: 14 strange newspaper headlines from history.

A pink flower with various contraptions in the background

From goat eyelids to bread: history's 12 strangest sex toys.

Treasures floating in the waves

Which treasures were lost when Titanic sank, and what did some survivors smuggle onto lifeboats?

The Forty Elephants gang with an inset of Diamond Annie

Who were the real Forty Elephants? The true story of Mary Carr and the all-woman crime gang

Jane Austen's grave.

Lupus or murder?What was Jane Austen's cause of death?