A landmark US law passed more than 50 years ago helped build the world’s most successful national women’s football team.

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Historian Helen Carr explores the disastrous 14th century, a time when famine, war, pestilence and rebellion took medieval ...

Historian Adrian Goldsworthy reveals the brutal training, bureaucratic grind and uncertain rewards of life in the Roman ...

During the Second World War, thousands of Allied pilots were deployed on a mission so dangerous, and so overshadowed by the rest of the conflict, that many referred to themselves grimly by the acronym ...

A stunning treasure trove of Anglo-Saxon coins reveals how rebellion, loyalty and fear shaped England in the wake of 1066.

In the Boyne Valley of eastern Ireland stands one of the world’s most fascinating prehistoric monuments: Newgrange. Centuries older than the Pyramids of Giza or Stonehenge, Newgrange is a large ...

James Bond, with his shaken martinis and exotic escapes, is widely recognised as fiction’s most enduring spy. But his creator, Ian Fleming, didn’t conjure up Bond’s outlandish adventures from thin air ...