They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.

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From the importance of female pleasure to why you might need ribbons in the bedroom, historian Ruth Goodman explores the ...

Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once ...

How did the Norse adventurers of the Viking Age impose themselves upon eastern Europe? Not with longships and raids, says one ...

Andrew Carnegie stood at just 4 feet 10 inches tall, yet this Scottish immigrant reshaped American industry and philanthropy ...

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It’s four centuries since composer Nicholas Lanier (1588–1666) was appointed as the first Master of the King’s Music. Lanier also put in place the foundations of the Royal Collection, which now ...

Margaret Campbell, the famously beautiful Duchess of Argyll, had been a celebrity – and a source of scandal – from even before her debutante days. But she would be remembered for just one thing: the ...

“Tyndall’s-buildings is a court containing 22 houses… the basement story of nearly all… was filled with fetid refuse, of which it had been the receptacle for years. In some… it seemed scarcely ...