The star of Loki and The Night Manager hosts a retelling of the destruction of Pompeii – one that manages to make one of the ...

He has sailed to Troy with the coalition of Greek rulers determined to recover Helen, wife of Menelaus, after she was taken by the Trojan prince Paris. He has fought in a war that lasted ten years.

Ancient Greece had a rich panoply of deities and making sense of the web of family trees can be challenging. Matt Doherty ...

Did the Vikings chant about death, sex and masturbation while they rowed on the raiding missions that terrorised Britain and Europe between the eighth and 11th centuries? That’s a pertinent question ...

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 ...

The late Anglo-Saxon period was defined by ever-shifting struggles for supremacy. Across Northern Europe, chaos collided with opportunity, and Thorkell the Tall was among the many figures who set ...

Duke William of Normandy, who would become known as William the Conqueror, arguably changed the course of English history more profoundly than any ruler before or since. Despite beginning life as a ...

Perceptions of ancient Mesopotamia – the birthplace of the world’s first civilisations, which emerged more than 4,000 years ago across what is now Iraq – are dominated by stories of divine kings, ...

At the height of the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union vied for any advantage they could find. And between the various proxy wars and games of economic brinkmanship, the CIA unleashed its most ...

They were an aristocratic sorority like no other – controversial, stylish and utterly polarising. Products of British high society, the Mitford sisters were a six-piece social meteor shower streaking ...

There are many nations bidding for the title of best cuisine in the world, but one of the strongest candidates must be France. With its sophisticated cooking techniques, artistic presentation and, of ...

This six-part video course covers everything you need to know about Nazi Germany, guided by historian, author and broadcaster Laurence Rees Find out more Roger Moorhouse is a historian specialising in ...