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A painting showing a black beast biting the leg of an orange man dressed in a loincloth

What have the Etruscans ever done for us?

A sketch shows two topless men wearing pale shorts fighting each other in a boxing ring

From a lion-taming lightweight to the Muscular Maids: 5 Victorian boxing sensations you need to know about

Two men dressed in military uniform stand behind a barbed wire, looking into the camera. One wears a bandage around his head, covering one eye

Five things you (probably) didn’t know about the First World War

Reshaping narratives, repatriation and Richard III : 25 lessons we've learnt from history in the last 25 years

A black and white illustration shows a man in smart clothes slumped in a chair. To the left, a woman in a long skirt and jacket bends over him, taking his pocket watch from him

Victorian Britain's fearless female felons

What was life like in a medieval town? A historical A-Z

Rich men, reckless affairs and ruined reputations: the scandalous lives of London's 18th-century courtesans

A coloured engraving of pirate captain Bartholomew Roberts, who enforced strict rules on his ship.

Liquor, loot and death on the high seas: 5 things you (probably) didn't know about the history of pirates

The radio revolution: how Britain found its frequency

Hever Castle.

Five shocking tales from Britain’s royal palaces

Portrait of Frances Hoggan

General History

7 remarkable women who shaped Welsh history

A history of happiness: 5 life lessons from the past

"Dog poo was valuable": 5 things you (probably) didn't know about dogs

Illustration of the wolves of Gevaudan in France.

From the headless 'Blemmae' to a flesh-eating wolf: a 500-year history of monsters

A farmer in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

10 things you need to know about medieval Bohemia before you play Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

The view through a crosshair in Sniper Elite V2. (Photo by Rebellion)

The best sniper videogames for history enthusiasts in 2025

General History

The best historical movies of all time

A portrait of William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody standing in front of his saddle, holding a rifle behind his back.

13 famous cowboys and gunslingers from the history of the American Wild West

The ancient Roman goddess Venus with the gods Vulcan and Cupid, in a painting by Italian artist Sebastiano Ricci (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Roman gods and goddesses: 17 of the most important deities of ancient Rome

Zeus, king of the ancient Greek gods, seen in a 16th-century fresco by Pietro Bonaccorsi at Villa del Principe in Genoa, Italy

Zeus's children: who were the offspring of the god with a libido that couldn’t be contained

A portrait of King John of England

9 of the worst monarchs in history

'Monster soup commonly called Thames water, being a correct representation of that precious stuff doled out to us!!!', 1828; showing an ugly woman holding a spy glass which touches the circumference of a large circle representing a magnified drop of water filled with grotesque aquatic creatures. A satire on the Metropolitan Water Supply.

From murder bottles to arsenic wallpaper: 5 hidden killers in Victorian Britain

Gladiators do battle in a c320 AD mosaic, housed in the Borghese Gallery in Rome

Blood, guts and spectacle: 6 shocking events from the history of ancient Roman gladiators

Victorian cricket. (Photo by Getty Images)

Cricket, cocaine and cocoa houses: 5 ways Victorians spent their free time

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Damien Lewis as Henry VIII in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Thomas Cromwell on screen: is Wolf Hall the best depiction of the Tudor statesman?

Richard Nixon gives the thumbs-up after his resignation

General History

6 shocking presidential scandals that rocked the White House: from the Petticoat Affair to Clinton-Lewinsky

President Joe Biden delivers a speech

General History

Life after the White House: what the US presidents did next

Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy, Al Gore and George W Bush

General History

Lincoln, Adams and George W Bush: 6 disputed presidential elections in American history

5 things you (probably) didn't know about Victorian Britain

Gustave Doré's famous engraving, produced to illustrate the 1872 book 'London: A Pilgrimage', depicts (and exaggerates) the squalor of tightly packed terraced houses. Yes, as Rosalind Crone observes, the washing lines in Doré's picture demonstrate that "slum-dwellers were not all very dirty - or, at least, they didn't choose to be". (Photo by Getty Images)

Was Victorian life really so grim? 5 reasons why the Victorians were 'happy'