On This Day, 19th September, the preserved body of “Ötzi the Iceman” was discovered in 1991.

September 2nd to 6th, 1666 : The Great Fire rages across London destroying four-fifths of the city. In the early hours of September 2nd,...

On This Day, 27 August 1896, Britain fought its shortest ever war lasting just over 40 minutes.

A further two recipes from the Golden Age of Piracy from an event at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London.

A guide to poisons, their history and uses in the ancient world.

An introduction to the history of assassins and assassination.

The Tackle In Parts One , Two and Three of this "How to:" series we established the background and how we went about building our scale...

The notion of Viking berserkers has captured the popular imagination but who were they?

Dispelling some myths that Medieval people did not bathe.

A brief introduction to crime and punishment in Merry Ol' England.

Dispelling myths that towns and villages in the Medieval period were dirty, smelly places in which to live.

Did Roman soldiers train with double weight swords?

Dispelling some myths surrounding the legendary King Arthur.

Etymology The Roman testudo means “tortoise” not “turtle”, even if Rex Harrison, playing Julius Caesar in the 1963 film “Cleopatra”,...

Challenging some of the common misconceptions about witches.

Was "Albion" the name used for Great Britain by its earliest inhabitants?

Is colour-blind casting on TV and film, particularly documentaries, creating misleading and horrible history?

A brief introduction to the nineteen men, in no particular order of seniority, who formed Henry VIII’s Privy Council in 1540.

Dispelling the TV and film myth that gladiators in the Roman arena hailed the emperor with the word "Those who are about to die salute you!"

An exploration of how Greek hoplites may have fought with their spears.