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From ancient law codes to 20th century psychoanalysis, the story of fatherhood is far stranger and more surprising than you ...
Australia tried to send a live platypus across U-boat-infested waters to Britain as a diplomatic gift. The mission, part ...
Both men solidified reputations as technological innovators, and on the HistoryExtra podcast, Professor Iwan Morus argues ...
In this HistoryExtra podcast series, travel journalist and history fan Paul Bloomfield virtually roams the streets and sites of great global metropolises in the company of a series of expert historian ...
A new academic study reveals how Cold War paranoia, space medicine, and germ theory collided in one of the most bizarre ...
Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...
Emily Hobhouse revealed the truth about Britain’s brutal treatment of Boer civilians during the South African War. She was ...
Is the Fountain of Youth real? There is no single Fountain of Youth in legend. The notion is a very human one: to believe in something beyond our understanding that preserves life, and then to regard ...
“Julia was so crazed for sex that she went down every night into the Forum and sold sex to every passing boatman and gladiator.” Or so the ancient Roman writer Seneca would have us believe. A daughter ...
The story of the ancient world is often dominated by tales of Rome or Athens – the respective epicentres of the Greco-Roman civilisations. But that only provides a fraction of the entire picture. “The ...
When the invading Roman legions assaulted the mighty hillfort of Maiden Castle, in Dorset in the middle of the 1st century AD, they killed and quickly buried its British defenders among the ramparts.
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