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In theory, putting down the rebels of the First Jewish Revolt should have been easy for the mighty Roman empire. But ...

Edmund Ironside was an ill-fated king during a violent and turbulent time in the history of the Anglo-Saxons. But is the ...

Have you ever sat around a dinner table or in a pub and rubbed your finger along the rim of a glass to make that eerie ...

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One method you likely haven’t tried is putting a cold apple on your head. But, centuries ago, the Tudors and other people of ...

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Before he was the monarch with six wives – two of whom he had beheaded – Henry VIII was a Tudor adonis: attractive and active ...

Writing about his experiences many years later, the words of German flying ace Johannes Steinhoff reflect the innate confidence of the Luftwaffe during the early days of the Third Reich. Enraged by ...

Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...

Iran enjoys one of the richest historical lineages of any modern state stretching back several thousand years. This history can be broadly divided into three epochs: the pre-Islamic ancient period ...