One hundred years ago, on the 10th January 1918 the House of Lords gave approval for women over the age of thirty to have the right to vote...

The idea that it was the Norse who discovered America first emerged in the late 18th century, long before there was any public awareness of the sagas on which such claims were based. In the course of....

Roman Britannia was ruled by a succession of three great governors in the 70s and early 80s. The first was Petillius Cerialis (r. 71-73), who had some success in curtailing the power of the …

Sometime after the year 500, a Burgundian warlord named Gundobad besieged his own brother in the city of Vienne, France. The trapped brother, whose name was Godigisel, should have known not …

We English like to think of ourselves as gentlemen and ladies; a nation that knows how to queue, eat properly and converse politely. And yet in 1642 we went to war with ourselves...

Many foods still enjoyed around the world were invented in the Middle Ages, such as these six foods and drinks.

The next book I’m writing is about Roman emperors, and I don’t mean about modern images of them (that’s the theme of my Twelve Caesars). What I am doing

In 415 BCE, Athens and its allies launched an expedition to Sicily reportedly consisting of over 130 warships, plus more than 100 smaller supply boats. Accompanying the sailors was a combine…

Surviving Winter in the Middle Ages