From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...

A supernaturally athletic ghost is alleged to have menaced the towns and cities of 19th-century England. Able to spew fire ...

The eldest of the Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford turned the eccentricities of her family and social class into sharp, ...

Drawn from the British aristocracy to the heart of Hitler’s inner circle, Unity Mitford’s life was a disturbing collision of ...

Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became ...

Get the inside line on the lives of the Mitford sisters: a story of glamour, scandal, politics and their enduring hold on ...

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

Queen Ranavalona I of the Kingdom of Imerina (present-day Madagascar) violently purged her kingdom of foreign influence, ...

A nearby tomb reveals the image of Merit Ptah, the first female doctor known by name. She lived in approximately 2,700 BC and hieroglyphs on the tomb describe her as ‘the Chief Physician’. That's ...

There are plenty of other contenders for worst Roman Emperor – Nero and Commodus for example – but Caligula 's mad reign sets a high standard. After a promising start to his reign he seems to have set ...

In 1704, French and Bavarian forces threatened Vienna, capital of Britain’s ally Austria. To counter this, the Duke of Marlborough marched his army of British, German and Danish troops 250 miles from ...