Historian Mark White explores whether John F Kennedy would have defeated Barry Goldwater in 1964 – and how his second term ...

Although British soldiers in the Second World War sang about the Führer only having “one ball”, that did not necessarily make ...

In the early 19th century, a gifted and divisive figure from France became a political giant in Europe – and it wasn’t ...

Rising from the fires of the French Revolution, one young man reached the top of European politics – not through seizing ...

If you killed a man in 14th-century England, there was a good chance you’d get away with it. Not because the law was soft, or justice disorganised — in fact, homicide was a capital offence. But ...

If your donkey fell ill in ancient Mesopotamia, the solution wasn’t to summon a vet: it was to call an exorcist. It was a lucrative career path that began with sick animals, but could culminate at a ...

In the summer of 1488, King James III of Scotland was fleeing a battlefield. His army had collapsed at the battle of Sauchieburn, and his teenage son, the future James IV, had joined the rebel nobles ...