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A powerful prophecy was made in the Laxdaela Saga, a tragic 13th-century Icelandic tale filled with gory twists and turns. It ...

Cutting ties with continental Europe in around 3000 BC, ancient Britons abandoned innovation and shunned trade. Why did they ...

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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 ...

In this three-part series exclusively available to members of HistoryExtra, Janina Ramirez, a leading popular historian, offers a fresh look at the medieval world through the women usually written out ...

The United States emerged from the aftermath of the Second World War a superpower. Stepping into the Cold War – and a technological arms race with the Soviet Union – the US’s new dominance within the ...

In the seventh century BCE, at the height of Assyrian imperial power, scribes working under King Ashurbanipal compiled what would become the oldest known library in human history. Housed in the palace ...

In the early modern period, as the Stuart dynasty rose and fell, people lived in close-knit communities where privacy was a rare and precious commodity. It was also something that often aroused deep ...

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 ...