Get the inside line on the lives of the Mitford sisters: a story of glamour, scandal, politics and their enduring hold on posterity ...

Drawn from the British aristocracy to the heart of Hitler’s inner circle, Unity Mitford’s life was a disturbing collision of ideology and implosion ...

Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became particularly well known in the 1930s. Tall, blonde and a celebrated society beauty, ...

Queen Ranavalona I of the Kingdom of Imerina (present-day Madagascar) violently purged her kingdom of foreign influence, halved her population and terrified European colonisers ...

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long before the Bible’s famous story ...

From peaches and lentils to your favourite herb, ancient Mediterranean doctors had strong opinions about what you should (and shouldn’t) eat – and their verdict on some of today’s staple foods might s ...

A powerful prophecy was made in the Laxdaela Saga, a tragic 13th-century Icelandic tale filled with gory twists and turns. It concerned the unborn child of the beautiful Guðrún, a woman caught in a ...

From ancient law codes to 20th-century psychoanalysis, the story of fatherhood is far stranger and more surprising than you might think ...

Cutting ties with continental Europe in around 3000 BC, ancient Britons abandoned innovation and shunned trade. Why did they choose this dramatic self-isolation? Archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson sugg ...

Australia tried to send a live platypus across U-boat-infested waters to Britain as a diplomatic gift. The mission, part zoological experiment, part geopolitical theatre, ended in disaster ...

Both men solidified reputations as technological innovators, and on the HistoryExtra podcast, Professor Iwan Morus argues that Nikola Tesla might have embraced – and misunderstood – his connections to ...

In this HistoryExtra podcast series, travel journalist and history fan Paul Bloomfield virtually roams the streets and sites of great global metropolises in the company of a series of expert historian ...