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“If there's no response – or if it's a negative response – I think it will be very bad for the future of Nato.”

So said US President Donald Trump in March 2026, after asking European allies for their help in securing the Strait of Hormuz. This primary export route…

Alongside the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD, 1066 stands as one of the most pivotal years in British history. It marked the end of Anglo-Saxon rule and the ascendancy of the Normans under William the Conqueror.

At the centre of this story is King Harold Godwinson,…

In this episode, HistoryExtra’s Rachel Dinning and Lauren Good step inside the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, the woman who would captivate Henry VIII, reshape the English monarchy, and ultimately meet a tragic end.

Joined by castle historian and assistant curator Dr Owen Emmerson, we explore Boleyn’s…

If they labeled it explicitly, one of the biggest categories on Substack would be called something like, “People Pretending to Be Persecuted”. Browse any genre and you’ll find writers touting their exile from polite society with titles like “DR. BOB’S POLITICALLY INCORRECT HOEDOWN” and “The Cancelled…

In the early 1860s Sicily was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy. Soon after, visitors to the island discovered what they believed was a criminal fraternity at work in Palermo and its environs. That fraternity – the ‘Mafia’ – possessed secret rites and bylaws that governed its members. Chief among…

The Academy Awards were first held in 1929, and each year the film industry awards gold-plated statuettes – commonly called Oscars – in a glittering and star-studded ceremony.

Officially the Academy Award of Merit, everyone knows the golden knight holding a sword and standing on a reel of film as…

Close your eyes and picture Anne Boleyn. Chances are you can conjure up a pretty clear and detailed image in your imagination – because few figures in English history seem as visually familiar as Henry VIII’s second queen.

Representations of her face appear everywhere: in films, television dramas…

A cesspit isn’t where most people would choose to look to learn more about the story of the Middle Ages.

Cesspits – lined shafts or dug-out pits designed to hold human waste – were a very ordinary feature of medieval towns and settlements. The Middle Ages saw towns’ populations…

In early June 1940, Europe was in freefall. Germany’s invasion of France and the Low Countries – launched in May 1940 – had overturned the presiding strategic assumptions of the First World War. Instead of the slow stalemate of trench warfare, German ‘Blitzkrieg’ tactics had combined tanks, aircraft and rapid…