History

In Wales, there is a huge earthwork memorial that honours the lives of horses and ponies that worked in underground coal mines.

Learn how emperor Aurelian restored the Mediterranean world by reuniting the Roman Empire.

Matthew's interests include writing, gaming, movies, and pretending to be Irish despite only having one Irish Great Grandparent.

A review of Early Roman Warfare, by Jeremy Armstrong, a book detailing a revised model of development for the early Roman armies.

In the 1960s, the CIA thought it could train cats to spy on its enemies. Project Acoustic Kitty was born.

The town of Winchester, Illinois, was once home to Stephen A. Douglas and the site of an important speech by Abraham Lincoln. A number of buildings of historic and architectural significance remain there as well.

Read on to learn how Napoleon defeated the Fifth Coalition, and the importance of the Battle of Wagram.

From the 15th through the 18th centuries, scientific thought underwent a revolution. The Aristotelian view of nature that had dominated science for almost 2,000 years was cast out. The Scientific Revolution brought forth a more rigorous method of scientific exploration.

Marlborough stops Louis XIV at the Battle of Blenheim, a decisive battle in European history.

Fine dining in the feudal era was reserved for the rich, while the poor made do with bread and stew. Here is an overview of what people from various classes of medieval society depended on for their daily sustenance.

This article discusses the battle of Poltava, which was decisive in that it brought about the fall of the Swedish Empire.

Negligence, combined with a culture of corporate greed, took the lives of 193 people.

Lady Jane Grey became known in history as the tragic "nine days' queen" but why did she think of herself as the rightful queen of England when Henry VIII's daughter Mary was waiting in the wings?

Behind every mighty empire of history was an elite warrior order that dominated the battlefield. Learn about the 7 most adept of these here.

By mistreating prisoners under his supervision he signed his own death warrant.

Learn about the battle of Pharsalus, a decisive military engagement that ensured the fall of the Roman Republic

This article covers the war that decided the fate of the Western Mediterranean.

This article discusses the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Learn about the battle of Gaugamela, which played a large role in the making of the Hellenic World.

King Henry V is best known as the victorious monarch of the 1415 Battle of Agincourt in France. He had a short life but he cast a long shadow through his achievements.

It took an apocalyptic plague, a series of wars, and a document considered to be the world's first constitution; but eventually, the system that had defined the Middle Ages came to an end.

It was an age of superstition, plague and poverty, when only the rich could afford doctors and the doctors relied on 1,000-year-old texts. Here's a look at medicine in the Middle Ages.

Learn about the rise of the Ottoman Empire, also known as The Great Turkish Empire.

Some inventors profit mightily from their creations while others are destroyed by them.

There's no shortage of media depicting medieval European weaponry. It turns out, however, that this was much more than swords, axes, spears, and bows.

The man who ended the Third Century Crisis.

What does a Hungarian say to bad luck? More was lost at Mohacs.

And then the Winged Hussars arrived. This article discusses the 1683 battle of Vienna, in which the Ottoman Empire besieged the Hasburgs.

The legendary spies and assassins who helped the lords of Feudal Japan wage war in the shadows. Here's how a ninja was forged.

In 1817, a ragged band of English workers tried to overthrow the government.

Servius Tullius was the sixth king of ancient Rome, reigning from 578 to 535 BC. Tullius accomplished many things that benefited all Romans, especially the lower classes. He instituted a census, reorganized the military, and established the voting assembly that was more representative.

The Great Sphinx is a very large sculpture in Egypt built after the Egyptian myth of a creature that has the body of a lion and the head of a human.

The iconic French structure has attracted its fair share of strange events.

Read on to learn about the Sassanid Empire, the last empire of the pre-Islamic Iran.

Read on to learn all about Napoleon's masterpiece, the Battle of Austerlitz.

This article examines and ranks the 10 worst dictators in human history. It provides a brief overview of their brutal policies, specific traits, and their general history.

Queen Christina of Sweden was eccentric and unique. Proclaimed queen as a child, she stunned Europe when she quit as ruler aged 27. Exile from Sweden didn't stop her from trying to reclaim power or from using her royal prerogative to murder her advisor.

Learn about the rise of Prussia in the 18th century and the life of Frederick the Great, especially his involvement in the Seven Years' War.

Why did the military genius march into his own doom?

A British aristocrat of the 19th century, she ignored all the rules about how a woman should behave.

In the1950s, a group of children from Greenland had their lives turned upside down.

The crown jewels kept in London are world-famous, but did you know that Scotland has its own set of regalia normally referred to as the Honours of Scotland? These are some of the oldest crown jewels in the UK, and their story is one of survival against the odds.

In 1982, a massive oil drilling platform off Newfoundland sank, taking the lives of 84 men.

Forensics has evolved a great deal in the last century, but that progress was fraught with misconceptions and outlandish ideas.

Plymouth Rock has long been touted as the site of the Pilgrim's first footsteps on North American soil. But was this really where they landed? How do we know?

The Etruscans were a people of ancient Italy who occupied lands to the north and south of Rome. Their civilization lasted from roughly the 8th century BC to the 1st century BC, finally being incorporated into the Roman Empire.

Early in the 20th century an attempt to unionize American workers was met with brutal suppression.

Henry VIII is probably the best known of England's Tudor monarchs. From his wives to his unforgiving nature and break with Rome, he left a lot for historians to work with. Here are 8 interesting facts about the king who changed England forever.

The Transit of Venus in 1769 was of interest to the entire world. Captain James Cook was sent to the South Pacific by King George III to chart the transit of Venus in front of the sun and to measure the size of the solar system.

The Spanish Crown rose like a meteor to become the foremost power of Europe during the 16th century. Unfortunately for them, the endless war the Habsburgs were dragged into in the end broke the power of Spain and saw France eclipse Habsburg Spain as the strongest state of the continent.