The 1934 FIFA World Cup, held in fascist Italy, was used by Mussolini as a propaganda platform. Here’s how football and ...

We all think we know Marilyn Monroe. We recognise her from Old Hollywood films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire and Some Like It Hot. We’ve seen her face on a certain Andy ...

The period in history known as the Viking Age was violently heralded in with the Lindisfarne raid of 793 AD. That bloody encounter off the northeast coast of England between Christian monks and ...

‘Every route is a choreography for me. A creation. I see myself as an artist, and I paint with movement on nature’s canvas.’ If the words of Matt Bush sound a bit pretentious or precious, bear in mind ...

On the evening of 5th June 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower sat down and wrote a note that he hoped no one would ever need to read. ‘If any blame or fault is attached to the attempt,’ he wrote, ‘it ...

Also known as the ‘Golden Square outbreak’, the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak remains one of the most important events in the history of public health, health geography and epidemiology. In 1854, ...

Grandson to Queen Victoria, the old-fashioned but popular King George V, who reigned over an empire from which the sun never set, had a dark side to his personality that today would make him the most ...

The second of nine children, Kennedy was reared in a family that demanded intense physical and intellectual competition among the siblings. The family's touch football games at their Hyannis Port ...

Despite monarchy being largely constitutional at the start of Queen Victoria’s ascension, her 63-year reign saw her preside over the abolition of slavery, the expansion of workers’ welfare, the speedy ...

2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This document set the original Thirteen Colonies of the United States on the road to freedom from British rule. So, this year is ...

France’s fall to the Nazis early in the Second World War is one of Gallic history’s most ignominious chapters. It’s all the more tragic when you consider the far-reaching measures that France had ...

In this guest article, Dr Matthew Hefler, an expert in international and intelligence history at the Stockholm School of Economics, uncovers how espionage deepened the mistrust between Winston ...