The end of the gladiators
In AD 350 the gladiatorial games were as popular, magnificent and widespread as they had ever been. An unbroken history...
09/02/2016
HISTORY
Hawara mummies
Hawara mummies created a sensation when they were discovered, and in 1997 visitors to the British Museum found the first...
06/02/2016
The ascent of the Medieval Serbia
The main stages in the development and expansion of the Serbian States were also stages in its relationship with the...
03/02/2016
The Inquisitors’ work
Hideously unjust and psychotic in their devotion to duty, the Inquisitors went to any lengths to wring confessions from their...
01/02/2016
Royal upbringing in Edwardian era
The [British] royal family had not been that concerned by the wars of the 1860s and 1870s when children found...
31/01/2016
The Modoc War, 1872-73
From the late 1860s there was an uneasy peace until the outbreak in 1872 of the Modoc War, one of...
04/12/2015
In the Medieval peasant house
There are as many different sorts of peasant houses as there are peasant families, and there are huge variations across...
30/11/2015
Few leading figures in the English Civil War 1642-51
In the middle of 17th century England experienced a great convulsion of political and military violence, which quickly spread to...
30/11/2015
Sir Martin Frobisher: The first gold rush
Once those pioneering sailors had brought news of strange new lands, all sorts of others saw opportunities of exploiting them...
29/11/2015
Hastings: The Battle that Changed the Western Europe
The year 1066 is the most celebrated in English history. To every English schoolchild it evokes a Saxon hero, Harold,...
14/10/2015