The author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four witnessed some of the early 20th century’s most significant flashpoints, ...

The home of the presidency has stood as an icon of American democracy for more than two centuries, but it was designed by an ...

The words ‘latrine’ and ‘disaster’ should give a clue as to how between 60 and 100 members of the Holy Roman Empire aristocracy succumbed to a spectacularly foul demise. Gathered in 1184 in an ancient ...

The sight of a hot air balloon was a popular Victorian spectacle, so the quiet scenes on 5 September 1862 would have made for a curious sight. On the outskirts of the Black Country town of ...

To watch the 1984 movie Amadeus, with a star turn from Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the immature, lewd, debauched young man on screen – complete with ...

The term ‘Greek life’ has little to do with ancient Greece or its long history – so forget about the temples and city states, ...

Dr Isobel Wisher and comedian Seán Burke join Greg Jenner to talk palaeolithic cave art. It’s a discussion that takes in the latest research into why and how our ancient ancestors created their ...