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Thomas Cromwell’s final six months were a Greek tragedy of hubris and political venom, all presided over by a tyrannical king ...

“Tory spending cuts send us back to the misery of the Victorian workhouse,” cried a Mirror headline in 2010. Workhouses were “bleak, grimly austere and oppressive”, wrote the author of a study of one ...

Tim Thornton: You’re right: the princes’ fate is one of the greatest of all historical mysteries, and I’ve been investigating it all of my career, which I’m terrified to admit is now about 30 years!

There are plenty of other contenders for worst Roman Emperor – Nero and Commodus for example – but Caligula's mad reign sets a high standard. After a promising start to his reign he seems to have set ...

The history of toothpaste has to be split into two: the first part goes back thousands of years when ancient civilisations around the world all made their own important advances in dental hygiene; the ...

A skilled and courageous frontiersman who became a politician; an outspoken and popular politician who was transformed into an American folk hero; a homespun storytelling folk hero who was later known ...