Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...

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Hitler’s U-boats were a feared component of his naval strategy during the Second World War. But what was life aboard these ...

Before the Cold War hardened into coups and counterinsurgency, the United States backed reformist governments across Latin ...

For most people in Tudor England, an ordinary diet was more structured – and often more varied – than we might expect ...

Amid the industrial warfare of the Second World War, battlefield performance depended on precise logistics and the ability to absorb catastrophic losses. How did America, Germany and the Soviet Union ...

Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the clearest case of how politics shaped historical memory ...

The ancient Romans would come to build one of the world’s mightiest empires, spanning continents and moulding the trajectory of much of Europe and the spaces around it. But that wasn’t an outcome that ...

In February 1848, after almost two years of conflict, Mexico signed a peace treaty that formally ended a war with the United States which it no longer had any chance of winning. But the peace treaty ...