Hippos of the Thames
The discovery in Victorian London of the remains of ancient animals – and a fascination with their modern descendants – helped to transform people’s ideas of the deep past, as Chris Manias reveals.
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Roger Casement, the Irish Volunteer
The trial for treason and execution of Roger Casement – humanitarian, homosexual and Irish Nationalist – which took place, in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916, continues to resonate, as Andrew Lycett explains.
Asia in Amsterdam
A new exhibition explores the history behind the first global market.
Robert II of Scots is born
The first monarch of the House of Stewart was born on March 2nd, 1316.
After the Norman Conquest
Eleanor Parker is inspired by a visit to a village church in Oxfordshire that bears witness to one of the most turbulent and transformative periods in English history.
Speer: Hitler’s Architect
The ‘Nazi who said sorry’ was a master of constructing his own narrative.
Death of King Ethelbert of Kent
The first English king to be converted to Christianity died on February 24th, 616.
Evidence of an Anglo-Saxon Alliance
A newly found hoard offers insights into an England threatened by Vikings.
Who Killed James VI and I?
The accusation that James VI of Scotland and I of England was murdered by his favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, may have been a false one but it was widely believed.
Forth Railway Bridge, 1888
Roger Hudson describes how the ‘stiffest bridge in the world’ took shape following a railway disaster in 1897.