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Rumours about the sexual proclivities of King William III began to spread as soon as he took the English throne. What went on behind the closed doors of the royal court had implications for the nation.

‘What is the most common misconception about my field? That scholars who study elite white men are more objective.’

The devastation and chaos inflicted on London by wartime bombing raids provided an opportunity for murderers to conceal their crimes.

The loss of his treasure on the road to war was said to have brought about King John’s demise. What happened to it?

Britain’s Second World War Conservatives and their utopian dream of world government. 

The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain’s Forgotten Monarch by Sophie Shorland returns the consort to her rightful place in Restoration history.

Was Richard III a just king or just doing what a king should do? 

In Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History, Kim A. Wagner offers a blow-by-blow account of Bud Dajo. But is the devil truly in the detail?

The puppet theatres of Kazakhstan combined Soviet ideals with Kazakh traditions to educate the masses.

Entrepreneur Hugh Donald McIntosh struck white gold when London’s Black and White Bar opened on 1 August 1935.