Like its’ English and Scottish counterparts, every corner of Wales has a magical figure connected to it. Whether hag like ...

On a beach near Naples in October 79 CE, more than three hundred people were standing on a beach, hoping for an evacuation.

Read more in The Dark Little History of Somerset by Mike Dean. A study of the past teaches us that human nature and behaviour have not fundamentally changed over the centuries, and that history has ...

TRACEY NORMAN is an historian and author with a particular interest in witchcraft cases. She is the author of the acclaimed play WITCH, using actual witch trial documents to tell the story of a ...

Slavery has existed for millennia in varying forms in all parts of the world. Here is a brief history of the major slave trades.

The anchorite, or religious recluse, has been a part of Christian religious life since its early days. They lived solitary lives out in the desert – indeed, these solitaries became collectively known ...

The infamous Dr Crippen was executed in 1910 for poisoning and dismembering his wife in Islington, London ...

Caroline Biggs CAROLINE BIGGS has lived all her life in Cambridge. She was an active Trustee of The Museum of Cambridge, where she founded a history festival to redress the massive imbalance between ...

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Excavated cat bones and cat images on vases and coins are proof that cats were padding about southern Italy at the end of the fifth century BC. By the time we get to the Roman Empire, there must have ...

The popular TV show Outlander, now in its seventh season, is based on a series of historical novels written by Diana Gabaldon. In the series Claire Randall, a nurse from the Second Wold War, travels ...

The devastating North Sea flood of 1953 caused catastrophic damage and loss of life in Scotland, England, Belgium and The Netherlands and became one of the worst peacetime disasters of the 20 th ...