In the Georgian period, when same-sex couples could not marry, some queer men may have used adult adoption to create legal ...

In this four-part HistoryExtra series, Professor Adam IP Smith examines how 13 British colonies became the United States of ...

For centuries, no one paid much notice to a small mound at the Neolithic Ness of Brodgar. All that could be about to change ...

The Ladies of Llangollen built a life together in 18th century Wales, becoming famous for their shared home, joint identity ...

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How did many Nazis escape – and who helped them? Rumour has long had it that the nefarious ODESSA, codename for a supposed ‘Organisation of Former SS Members’, sluiced Nazis out of Europe to South ...

Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...

In 1900, as the Victorian era drew to a close, a 40-year-old British woman boarded a South African train loaded with 12 tons of relief supplies. She was heading into the middle of a brutal conflict ...

The eldest son of a baronet, Sir Oswald Mosley was born into an aristocratic family in London in 1896. He rose to fame as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1920s before becoming the founder and head ...