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“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 ...

Founded in 1954, Lew Grade’s ITC produced a string of hit dramas that are still repeated today, including, The Persuaders!, The Saint and cult classic The Prisoner. ITC also bankrolled Gerry ...

Historians Tim Thornton and Tracy Borman tell our podcast editor Ellie Cawthorne about a remarkable new discovery that may ...

The Industrial Revolution caused a dramatic shift in women’s roles in society. Before industrialisation, the household would have been the centre of production, and women’s work largely confined to ...

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 ...

For no longer than 38 minutes on 27 August 1896, the one-sided Anglo-Zanzibar War was fought between the might of the British ...

Ancient peoples were looking after their teeth with – admittedly unappealing – concoctions that included animal bones, herbs and, in the case of the Romans, human wee. There was no single inventor, bu ...

Growing up on the American frontier taught Davy Crockett how to survive, but it was his gifts as a raconteur that saw him ...