Jennifer Still

Life in medieval times wasn’t just about surviving disease, war, and famine. It was also shaped by a deeply superstitious worldview. People genuinely believed that...

Britain’s military history is filled with covert research projects and classified breakthroughs that only saw daylight years after they’d changed the course of war. Some...

Britain’s influence on global culture is enormous, but what’s even more striking is how many of its exports have been reinvented abroad. These cultural exports...

The Victorians were many things—innovators, industrialists, and reformers. But they were also a deeply superstitious bunch, with old beliefs still seeping into their everyday routines....

When people think of hysteria, they tend to picture individuals acting irrationally. But history shows that entire communities—even whole towns—have at times been swept up...

History has no shortage of tyrants, conquerors, and extremists, but what makes some of them especially unnerving is that they genuinely thought they were doing...

For centuries, Indigenous languages across the globe were pushed to the edge—silenced by colonisation, outlawed in schools, or simply sidelined in favour of dominant tongues....

When we think of WWII, we usually focus on battles, politics, and major historical events. However, the war had a huge impact on everyday life,...

The Classical Era—roughly from 500 BCE to 500 CE—gave us everything from democracy and philosophy to aqueducts and engineering. But behind the marble statues and...

Science moves forward because people share what they learn, but not everyone does. Some discoveries, theories, or strange obsessions have been buried with the people...