From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

Showman and psychic researcher Harry Price turned Borley Rectory into a national sensation, and its infamy as a haunted house ...

Jane Winters: Records and sources now come in a whole range of formats. In some cases, they are very familiar analogue sources that have become digital, whereas in others they are in a completely new ...

Imagine losing your livelihood in 16th-century England. There was no welfare state, no pensions, no hospitals or residential homes for the elderly, and no benefits for the sick. If you were injured, ...

When we think of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon may be the first examples that come to mind. However, the oldest-known versions of ...

Set alight by Reformation hopes and long-standing grievances, the German Peasants’ War looked like it might successfully ...

Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power ...

Owain Glyndŵr’s revolt against English rule is one of the best-known uprisings of the Middle Ages. His name is immortalised in Welsh legend, remembered as the leader who defied the English crown for ...

Smothered by sheets of ice and rugged tundra, Greenland is the world’s largest island. Situated in the cold waters of the north Atlantic and crossing through the Arctic circle, the sparsely populated ...