From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...

A supernaturally athletic ghost is alleged to have menaced the towns and cities of 19th-century England. Able to spew fire ...

The eldest of the Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford turned the eccentricities of her family and social class into sharp, ...

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

Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became ...

A violent world built on loyalty and reputation The Anglo-Saxon period in Britain stretched from the early 5th century — following the collapse of Roman rule — to the Norman Conquest of 1066. During ...

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 ...

Exposing the vulnerabilities of the Roman state, the Antonine Plague struck across an approximate 15-year period, from AD 165 to 180. Outbreaks decimated the Roman population, economy, and military, ...

The earliest-known visible evidence of mass conflict between humans extends deep into the Mesolithic, around 13,400 years ago. Like it or not, warfare has been a part of the development of human ...

Once the Civil War ended in 1865, Fort Alcatraz – as it was then known – continued to be used as a military prison. Over decades its population of inmates grew, expanding to more than 500 during the ...