Politically embarrassing to politically powerful: how the Bayeux Tapestry became a tool of diplomacy
The Bayeux Tapestry was created to justify William the Conqueror’s invasion of England – but its political message may have been outdated almost as soon as it was finished. As the embroidery goes on ...
For most people in 14th-century England, home meant a smoky, crowded hall where eating, working and sleeping all happened in ...
After becoming the first human to orbit Earth, Yuri Gagarin was transformed into a global celebrity and sent around the world as the smiling face of Soviet power. But what did the cosmonaut make of ...
More than two centuries before Richard III would be accused of killing his own nephews, the Princes in the Tower, another ...
In the summer of 1553, a dying boy sat on England’s throne. The official answer, at least, seemed clear. Henry VIII’s will, backed by parliamentary statute, had placed Edward first in line, followed ...
The annual solstices were so important to ancient Britons that they intentionally arranged some of the enormous stones at Stonehenge to align with the rising midsummer sun – and its winter equivalent.
On 14 April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln, fresh from steering the country through the Civil War, was enjoying a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. During the performance, John Wilkes Booth, a ...
Few historical figures have been discussed and debated as much as Adolf Hitler. We have a wealth of primary source material available to us about his life, including his autobiographical manifesto ...
It’s not too often that medieval historians grab national headlines, but when you get an Oxford academic counting penises in a world-famous embroidery, you’re sure to arouse media attention. On ...
A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish descent, Saladin was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (which ruled over modern-day Egypt and parts of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen) and was the first man at the time of ...
Through the lens of idealised romanticism, the Old West continues to capture the imagination as a wild and untamed frontier ready to be harnessed by those with the determination, courage and grit ...
The king of the Greek gods could control many things: the weather, as the sky and thunder god; order and justice; his enemies, thanks to his thunderbolts; and the other Olympians, most of the time.
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