The military playbook of the ancient Assyrian Empire in Mesopotamia was as calculated as it was brutal. Shaped by formidable rulers – among them Tiglath-Pileser III, Sargon II and Ashurbanipal – ...

Home Period General History Quiz of the week: which invention was patented by Isaac Singer on 12 August 1851?

Can't decide which shows to watch or listen to this week? Here are the latest history radio and TV programmes airing in the UK that you won't want to miss ...

After almost half a millennia of the Roman republic came five centuries of empire – and some of the most famous and colourful rulers in history. Nige Tassell traces a path through the dynastic ...

When William the Conqueror invaded England he introduced a startling new military tactic. Explore why the castle-building campaign was the key to the Norman conquest of England.

The earliest-known visible evidence of mass conflict between humans extends deep into the Mesolithic, around 13,400 years ago. Like it or not, warfare has been a part of the development of human ...

What were the Corn Laws, who did they benefit and why were they abolished? Emma Slattery Williams explains more about the measures brought in by the British government in 1815… ...

There was no single, organised and institutional religion of the Vikings. As they did not comprise a distinct social entity to begin with, it stands to reason they would not have a distinct set of ...

Mulan, Disney’s latest live-action offering, is a new adaptation of a beloved Chinese ballad. Ahead of the film’s release, Professor Lan Dong of the University of Illinois Springfield explores the ...

Four years later, the New York Times published an ‘official’ list of the Four Hundred deemed acceptable by McAllister and other social judges of the day. While the figure itself might seem arbitrary ...

Earlier this year, we launched our '30 under 30' competition in collaboration with historian, presenter and author Alice Loxton. Alfred is Assistant Curator of Historic Buildings at HM Tower of London ...

When Old Norse explorers reached North America, they made history. But their brief, violent encounter with its indigenous peoples shows how cultural collisions could end in chaos. Historian and Viking ...