From William the Conqueror’s battle-winning cavalry to Richard III’s fatal final charge, Oliver H Creighton and Robert ...

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In 1940, with Nazi bombers looming over British cities and the threat of invasion ever-present, Frisch and Peierls’ findings ...

Home Period General History Quiz of the week: which invention was patented by Isaac Singer on 12 August 1851?

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Names like Odin and Thor are commonly known. But if can’t tell your Aesir from your Vanir, or don’t know what animals pulled Freyja’s chariot, or which of the gods and goddesses survived Ragnarök, ...

In 1386, two Frenchmen fought a duel in a field outside Paris, each seeking to bury his blade in the other’s body. One combatant had been accused of raping the other’s wife, a charge he denied ...