BlogFlockElizabeth Báthory is history's most prolific female serial killer and took pleasure in bathing in the blood of virgins... or so the story goes.
In this episode of the HistoryExtra podcast, Shelley Puhak challenges that idea. Speaking to Isabel King, Shelley describes the complex campaign of disinformation that Elizabeth faced,…
How does the upcoming Odyssey adaptation represent the Trojan Horse, a plot concocted by the wily Odysseus (played by Matt Damon)? And how does director Nolan choose to depict Penelope (played by Anne Hathaway), a woman beleaguered by suitors in Odysseus's home of Ithaca? Here’s what we know.
In this…
June 2026 marked 50 years since Gurdip Singh Chaggar was stabbed to death in a racist attack in Southall, aged just 18. I have written about him before here but he has been occupying my thoughts again recently, as the half-century of his murder approaches.
If he were alive today,…
So there’s good news, and there’s bad news.
The good news is that after much delay, the Gordie Howe International Bridge is set to open on July 27th. The bad news is that we gave in to Trump’s intimidation.
And that will have consequences.
In 2012, Canada put up the…
At just before 6pm on Wednesday 3 July 1940, the first shells were fired towards the coast of Algeria. Across the shimmering water of the harbour at Mers el-Kébir, the crews of a group of French warships had no idea what was coming. Earlier in the day, French sailors had…
For the last 120 years, the gold mines of northern Ontario have generated enormous wealth. In the first half of the century, they relied on immigrant workers who laboured underground for low pay.
The theft of visible gold, known as highgrading, fuelled a large black-market economy. In some ways, the…
Did the Vikings chant about death, sex and masturbation while they rowed on the raiding missions that terrorised Britain and Europe between the eighth and 11th centuries?
That’s a pertinent question in the context of this summer’s FIFA Men’s World Cup. If you’ve been following the tournament, you’ll have…
So the Bayeux Tapestry has come home. In the quietest point of the night of 9/10 July (and a hot, sweltering night at that), a lorry rolled into the cargo bay of the British Museum. Inside, in its special vibration-damping box, was the Bayeux Tapestry.
It had made its journey…
Filmmaker Jon Erwin’s frontier drama Young Washington stars London-born William Franklyn-Miller as the future first President of the United States. But when the movie opens in July 1755, the figure of Washington as the revered leader of his nation is yet to come into focus.
Instead, we find Washington stricken…
Ian Crawford: Ultimately, I think it comes down to our desire to understand where we are. Over time, that curiosity became intertwined with…
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