In 1605, a small band of English Catholics tried to destroy the king, his family and parliament in a single explosion. This ...

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

Showman and psychic researcher Harry Price turned Borley Rectory into a national sensation, and its infamy as a haunted house ...

Religious reformer Martin Luther’s message of spiritual freedom helped ignite the German Peasants’ War of 1525. But before ...

Jane Winters: Records and sources now come in a whole range of formats. In some cases, they are very familiar analogue sources that have become digital, whereas in others they are in a completely new ...

Imagine losing your livelihood in 16th-century England. There was no welfare state, no pensions, no hospitals or residential homes for the elderly, and no benefits for the sick. If you were injured, ...

The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully ...

Across the wide plains of central Europe some 20,000 years ago, small bands of people began their days preparing for work. Men and women alike readied their tools: some for hunting, some for gathering ...

Is there any better way to understand the deadly politics and high drama of the Tudor era than through the lens of their audacious romantic entanglements? “[Sex] was seriously important to people in ...