From a shagpile in the shower to gas-fuelled irons, Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan lifts the lid on Britain’s strangest domestic ...

In February 1942, as the Blitz continued to batter Britain, London’s streets were plunged into darkness every night under government-enforced blackouts. These conditions, designed to shield the city ...

In 1945, Sidney Bernstein was given the job of making a film from the raw footage taken by British soldiers at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He turned to Alfred Hitchcock for help. Martin ...

The ancient Romans were pioneers in many aspects of medicine, but their treatments and surgeries were often painful, gruesome, and dangerous by modern standards. Without formal medical regulations, ...

The Illuminati is a name given to both a real secret society and a fictitious one. The latter has fuelled conspiracy theories for years, described as a secretive and mysterious worldwide organisation ...

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Historian Simon Schama explains how close Britain came to complicity in the Holocaust, and what the bureaucracy of genocide ...