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High Kings of Ireland

What if “High King” in medieval Ireland was less a fixed office than a fiercely contested prize, won through ritual, lineage, and force? On...

Britain's Most Scandalous Queen

‘Who wants a girl with a personality?’ Historically, not the royals.

Queen Caroline of Brunswick became Queen Consort of the United...

Long Walk of the Navajo

Between 1863 and 1866, more than 10,000 Navajo (Diné) were forcibly removed from their lands by the U.S. Military and forced to marched hundreds...

A Short History of The Airport

It’s where our ancient instincts to travel, to trade, to reunite with family and explore meet modern technology and innovation. From muddy...

The First New Zealanders

What if the first New Zealanders crossed an ocean, landed in a brand-new world, and built a whole society in just a few generations?

Tristan...

How Protestants Justified Slavery

Was the Protestant Reformation ever truly global? How did radical theology, empire, slavery and missionary ambition collide across the early...

The Most Disastrous Voyage in Navy History

It's hard to wrap your head around all the disasters that befell Captain Anson's Royal Navy voyage around the world in the 1740s. Rampant scurvy,...

How to Survive as a Medieval Woman

What was life really like for working peasant women in the Middle Ages? How did family, marriage, work and social class shape their choices, joys...

Why Catherine Howard Lost Her Head

Poor Catherine Howard. She was smart, intelligent and undeniably beautiful, but ultimately no match for the vicious Henry VIII.

She was...

The Robin Hood of the Wild West

Robbing from the rich to give to the poor and downtrodden - this is the legend of Joaquin Murrieta.

But how true was it? Murder rates in...

The Mycenaean World

Before 1200 BC, the ancient world was more connected than you'd ever imagine. Egyptian pharaohs, Hittite emperors and Mycenaean warrior-kings...

French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille

What drove a hungry city to storm a fortress? How did the fall of the Bastille become the defining symbol of the French Revolution?

In this...