The king of the gods in the ancient Greek pantheon had a notorious reputation for sleeping around, so it should come as no ...

A depiction of the unification of ancient Egypt? Or a powerful piece of propaganda for an early pharaoh? Here’s what we know ...

It is uncommon to see West African histories in mainstream media, and even more unlikely to come across West African histories from pre-colonial times. This lack of resources makes it all too easy to ...

From pharaohs to mummification, test your knowledge on ancient Egypt with this quiz… Lauren Good is the digital content ...

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For those who want to know how the Windsors spend the festive season, Channel 5 has the ideal double bill. First up is a documentary devoted to stories of the royals at Christmas, including the time a ...

The Yule Cat of Icelandic folklore is a much darker take on the jolly Christmas mythology many of us are familiar with, and ...

As downfalls go, it was spectacular – and brutally swift. On 10 June 1540, Thomas Cromwell arrived at court for what should have been a routine meeting of the Privy Council. As this son of Putney was ...

“Tory spending cuts send us back to the misery of the Victorian workhouse,” cried a Mirror headline in 2010. Workhouses were “bleak, grimly austere and oppressive”, wrote the author of a study of one ...