With its ability to generate heat, create light, cook food, sterilise water, transform materials and more, fire is a resource ...

In July 1776, during the second year of the American Revolutionary War (1775–83), representatives from 13 North American colonies of the kingdom of Great Britain voted to declare themselves ...

Who was Marie Curie and what is she famous for? Marie Curie is a Polish-born physicist and chemist who is remembered for being the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1903 for her research ...

The battle was the bloodiest clash of the American Civil War and a decisive victory for General George Meade’s Union forces over Robert E Lee’s Confederates. Prince Rupert’s royalist troops were just ...

Tom Cutterham is a historian of Revolutionary America and the late 18th-century Atlantic world, at the University of Birmingham Save 76% on the shop price when you subscribe today - Get 13 issues for ...

The ferry docks. You drive off and head straight out to the beckoning delights of Brittany or Normandy. But hold on. If you look to your left as you disembark, you’ll see the fine stone walls of St ...

History explorer Extravagance in Roman Britain: a visit to Fishbourne Roman Palace . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users. Save 76% on the shop price when you subscribe ...

Originating in the Spanish Civil War, the notion of the ‘enemy within’ conveyed by the term ‘fifth column’ has had a long and ...

From his groundbreaking insights into the cosmos to his persecution at the hands of the Catholic Church, Galileo Galilei stands as one of the most innovative and freethinking pioneers of modern ...

On 10 March 1914, a dramatic act of protest rocked the quiet halls of the National Gallery in London. Mary Richardson, a ...

A key difference between suffragists and suffragettes is that while the suffragists used largely peaceful methods such as lobbying, the suffragettes weren’t afraid to employ militant tactics. These ...