That weapon – and the bombs dropped so soon after on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – are often credited to the Manhattan Project, ...

Historian Linda Paterson explores the rise of the troubadours – the poetic performers who turned love, politics and desire ...

Almost as soon as they were able to navigate the world on their own two feet, children were expected to obey, work and prepare for a life of duty, whether as farmers, soldiers, citizens or mothers.

This is how a royal Frankish dynasty turned flowing locks into a political weapon, and why cutting them could mean deadly exile ...

Behind the myth of the Minotaur lies the ancient Minoan civilisation – a culture steeped in ritual, rich in symbolism, and obsessed with the power of bulls ...

When Old Norse explorers reached North America, they made history. But their brief, violent encounter with its indigenous ...

During the Second World War, thousands of Allied pilots were deployed on a mission so dangerous, and so overshadowed by the rest of the conflict, that many referred to themselves grimly by the acronym ...

Who was Saladin? A Sunni Muslim of Kurdish descent, Saladin was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty (which ruled over modern-day Egypt and parts of Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Yemen) and was the first ...

War Plan Red (a reference to the British redcoats of the American War of Independence) was further subdivided, depending on where in the world a potential war might break out. Ruby referred to India, ...