The biopic Lee, starring Kate Winslet, tells the story of the revered war photographer Lee Miller, exploring her unique lens ...

The Roman empire was at its height when a deadly disease caused devastation to its population, economy and military prowess.

The author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four witnessed some of the early 20th century’s most significant flashpoints, ...

Dozens of nobles from across the Holy Roman Empire met for crisis talks on a summer’s day in 1184, but the proceedings ended ...

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Forty years ago, a BBC film, Threads, directed by Mick Jackson and written by Barry Hines, unflinchingly showed what would follow if a nuclear bomb was detonated over Sheffield. Threads still haunts ...

In the early 13th century, Wanyan Yongji, mighty emperor of the Jin, sent a message to an upstart warlord who had had the temerity to invade his territory. “Our empire is as vast as the sea,” it read.

With his 1873 classic Around the World in Eighty Days, master raconteur Jules Verne skilfully captured the excitement of an era in which people could feel the planet shrinking beneath their feet. In ...

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

The cannon were pumping shot into the hull of the vessel, sending lethal splinters of shrapnel through the air. A fire had broken out below the main deck and the crew was attempting to douse the ...

In contrast with the First World War, the 1939–45 conflict has been perceived in the UK as a ‘good’ war resulting in the triumph of western democracies over evil fascist regimes, says Emma Hanna, a ...