‘After Hitler’: Changing German views of Nazism

Sep 26, 2024 | History

From secret adoration to loud dismay, Germans have come to terms with the Nazi past over 80 years in very different ways, as a new exhibition shows.

Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, study finds

Aug 14, 2024 | History

Monument’s largest “bluestone” was transported about 750 km – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations.

Her blazing world

May 28, 2024 | History

Margaret Cavendish’s boldness and bravery set 17th-century society alight, but is she a feminist poster-girl for our times?

Shock of the old

Mar 13, 2024 | Articles, History

Eleven past views of the future – from winged postmen to self-cleaning homes.

Inventing Hindu supremacy

Feb 27, 2024 | Articles, History

Vinayak Savarkar ridiculed Gandhi, preaching that anti-Muslim violence was the only means to unite India into a nation.

Inside the new science of history

Feb 20, 2024 | History

Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask.