Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

Explore how Valentine's Day evolved from ancient legends to modern-day celebrations, its historical roots, cultural shifts and how expressions of love have changed over time.

A bid to create a new centre for Jewish history in Norwich has "never been more essential" the House of Commons has been told ...

Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says - ‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand years of Japanese history related to the elite warrior class ...

According to a social media post, European women in the Middle Ages often poisoned their husbands in the morning and gave them an antidote at night.

Medieval texts and frescoes show how Francis of Assisi’s legends formed – and why his call to poverty and care for creation ...

A bid to create a new centre for Jewish history in Norwich has "never been more essential" the House of Commons has been told.

There is a rare mental disorder where the patient believes he is a werewolf; this condition was discovered first by Byzantine physicians.

By the time the trial opened in Nyíregyháza in June 1883, the case had already ceased to be about Eszter Solymosi. It had become a referendum on what kind of country Hungary believed itself to be. The ...

Discover the real historical figures behind five of Shakespeare's most famous characters, from Hamlet to Cleopatra.

Combining close readings of literary and scholarly works with the study of hundreds of handwritten books from the precolonial ...