Hailed as the “foremother of feminism”, Mary Wollstonecraft shook up 18th-century Britain with her barnstorming treatises on ...

Explore the story of Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who prevented a potential nuclear catastrophe during the height of ...

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Forty years ago, a BBC film, Threads, directed by Mick Jackson and written by Barry Hines, unflinchingly showed what would follow if a nuclear bomb was detonated over Sheffield. Threads still haunts ...

In a career that went from gracing the cover of Vogue to capturing the horrors of war zones and Nazi death camps, Lee Miller is remembered for defying expectations at every turn. Once a model, muse ...

When the adoptive brothers Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus became co-rulers in AD 161, the Roman empire was enjoying a golden age of progress, prosperity and peace. For nearly 200 years – going back ...

It’s often said that it feels like we, in the third decade of the 21st century, live in an ‘Orwellian’ age. Our likenesses and movements are captured by omnipresent CCTV cameras; our innermost ...

Dozens of nobles from across the Holy Roman Empire met for crisis talks on a summer’s day in 1184, but the proceedings ended ...

To watch the 1984 movie Amadeus, with a star turn from Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the immature, lewd, debauched young man on screen – complete with ...

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 ...