History

Tales of brave and selfless deeds used to be part of every boy's education. We grew up sharing stories with our fathers, uncles and grandfathers of...

Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal...

Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester. After she became queen, Elizabeth's infatuation with the...

Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453, it is a breathtaking...

History is replete with unanswered questions. Some of these questions are curiosities; others are of the profoundest importance to our cultural...

In 1096, an expedition of extraordinary scale set off from Western Europe on a mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Three years later, after a journey which ...

In the summer that saw the first successful flight of the Zeppelin, a 140 acre site of scrubland in West London was transformed into the White City,...

Genghis Khan - creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen - is one of history's immortals. In Central Asia, they still use his name to...

It is the gentry that have made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. England was a country dominated by its middling families, rooted on...

In 1989, Tim Moore moved into the last house in Chiswick with an outside toilet. Intrigued by a subsequent encounter with an elderly former resident, ...