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

Join us for the first series of History’s Greatest Battles, where we’re heading back to the Roman empire.

A hunger for glory, a sense of destiny, and an ego that knew no limits: The Rest is History’s Dominic Sandbrook explores how ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

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Witnessing a crime was one thing for medieval townspeople, but reporting it was another matter entirely… ...

Matt Elton: Which historical precedents sprung to mind when you were reading the news about high tariffs being imposed by the US on imports of commodities such as steel and aluminium? Frank Trentmann: ...

In 1774, a British army officer named Robert Newburgh was put on trial in North America. As a captain in the 18th Regiment of Foot, he should have been a respected figure within the British military.