A bankrupt treasury, disastrous foreign policy and a civil war: this is the story of how Henry III lost control of his own ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

Given the chance to interrogate one of history’s most famous figures, what would you ask? Speaking on the HistoryExtra ...

Witnessing a crime was one thing for medieval townspeople, but reporting it was another matter entirely… ...

Aethelred II – best known by the epithet, ‘the Unready’ – was king of the English for two periods, from AD 978 to 1013, and a brief second spell from 1014 to 1016. His combined reign of nearly 38 ...

The Schleswig-Holstein State Archive announced on Tuesday 25 March 2025 that it has rediscovered a small fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry (a monumental artefact that documents the story of the Norman ...