In the Georgian period, when same-sex couples could not marry, some queer men may have used adult adoption to create legal ...
In this four-part HistoryExtra series, Professor Adam IP Smith examines how 13 British colonies became the United States of ...
For centuries, no one paid much notice to a small mound at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar. All that could be about to change ...
William Shakespeare has shaped storytelling for centuries. The legendary wordsmith altered the English language, and countless artists have tried to replicate his style and flair or dig deep into his ...
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Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...
In the late 19th century, the wealth of the British aristocracy – much of which was wrapped up in agriculture now outsourced to the United States – was dwindling. As fortunes crumbled, so did many of ...
How did many Nazis escape – and who helped them? Rumour has long had it that the nefarious ODESSA, codename for a supposed ‘Organisation of Former SS Members’, sluiced Nazis out of Europe to South ...
The Roman empire was by no means the largest in history: in fact 25 others have occupied a larger land mass either before or since. Yet very few can boast as wide-reaching an influence and impact. At ...
Mary Wollstonecraft was a firebrand thinker of the late 18th century, whose writing proposed radical ideas about equality for all, and the fundamental rights of women. That life took Wollstonecraft ...
With his sun-bleached auburn hair, heroic exploits and easy charisma, Guiseppe Garibaldi was adored from London to New York, hailed as the man who turned the 19th-century dream of a united Italy into ...
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