Valentine's Day has been big business since the mid-19th century, when American merchants and printers transformed a religious folk tradition into a modern holiday. But, says Professor Lisa Bitel, few realise that the holiday began as a Christian feast day commemorating an ancient martyr named Valentinus…
In life Henry VI was a pitiful ruler who plunged England into disarray. But in death he became a national hero, hailed for saving the sick and the wrongly accused. Lauren Johnson explores the miraculous afterlife of a medieval monarch...
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Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous monuments. Located in Wiltshire and managed by English Heritage, the prehistoric site attracts more than one million tourists each year. But when was Stonehenge actually constructed? What was it used for? And why did Charles Darwin pay a visit in the 1880s?
The Nazi proclivity for buying, extorting and confiscating Europe's greatest artworks is well documented. But there was more to their desire to seize the Bayeux Tapestry than an acquisitive lust for one of France's foremost cultural treasures. Shirley Ann Brown examines Nazi attempts to establish a Germanic presence in the celebrated chronicle of the Norman conquest...
As a Prussian politician, Otto von Bismarck transformed a collection of small German states into the German empire, his style of rule later gaining him the nickname the 'Iron Chancellor'. Katja Hoyer introduces one of 19th-century Europe's most influential statesman…
This week on the HistoryExtra podcast, experts discuss Victorian pet cemeteries, slavery in the British empire, medieval forgeries, the perils of 17th century London, and changes in women's lives since the 1950s. Plus, everything you need to know about daily life in ancient Egypt...
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks.
When the thaw came, ten weeks of extraordinary weather had acted as a catalyst between two distinct eras. From poets to pop stars, shopkeepers to schoolchildren, and her own family's experiences, Juliet Nicolson traces the hardship of that frozen winter and the emancipation that followed. That spring, new life was unleashed, along with freedoms we take for granted today.
Frostquake by Juliet Nicolson is available now in hardback, ebook and audiobook
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