In 1605, a small band of English Catholics tried to destroy the king, his family and parliament in a single explosion. This ...

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Religious reformer Martin Luther’s message of spiritual freedom helped ignite the German Peasants’ War of 1525. But before ...

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The strange and powerful symbol at the heart of one of history’s greatest temples reveals the importance of the goddess ...

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

If you’ve ever posted a comment on social media, you’ve created a potential source for future historians. But what problems does this mass of new material pose? Matt Elton asked historians Jane Winter ...

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

The classicist and historian heads for Switzerland to explore how, in one of Europe’s most mountainous regions, different communities have prospered down the years. The Great Saint Bernard Pass, ...

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