From corsets to foot binding, lead makeup to skin bleaching, discover how fashion and beauty through history demanded pain, reinforced inequality, and shaped today’s toxic standards.

Was the Wild West really as volatile as its reputation suggests? We ask acting legend Kevin Costner ahead of his new ...

Lagertha was the first wife of Ragnar Lothbrok and was known for her skill as a shield maiden ...

How Victoria became queen: The succession crisis of 1817 The succession crisis and the desperate ‘baby race’ among King George’s sons to produce a legitimate heir.

Did you know it’s been 60 years since cigarette ads were banned? Join us as we take a look back on how it happened and where ...

Billy Hill was an icon in the London criminal underworld, but he tends to be forgotten. Read on to find out more.

Contrary to what classic Westerns might have you believe, many women made their mark in the Old West. Cynthia Ann Parker is just one ...

Discover the tragically short life of Hamnet Shakespeare, the boy (potentially) immortalised in his father’s greatest work.

For the thousands of British servicemen captured during the fall of Singapore and Malaya in 1942, VJ Day marked liberation ...

The Last Burma Star pays tribute to the last surviving veterans of the Burma Campaign, who fought alongside British and Commonwealth forces ...

The El Dorado of the sea On 23 September, 1641, an English galleon named the Merchant Royal, loaded with gold and silver, sank off the coast of Cornwall. The wreck remains lost to this day. Within her ...