Responsible for daring assignments like Operation Postmaster, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was given a mission to ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

Two rare Roman cavalry swords discovered in a Gloucestershire field have sparked the excavation of a previously unknown Iron ...

From exploding tinned food to covert assaults and code-breaking schemes, Ian Fleming’s real-life wartime exploits were just ...

From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

In 2020, analysis of a skull fragment discovered at Newgrange, County Meath, led to sensational claims of royal incest within ...

A supernaturally athletic ghost is alleged to have menaced the towns and cities of 19th-century England. Able to spew fire from its mouth and jump extraordinary distances, this phantom confounded the ...

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The public uptake was overwhelming. Despite warnings by postwar prime minister Clement Attlee that there were “bound to be early difficulties with staff, accommodation and so on”, 94 per cent of the ...

HistoryExtra's digital section editor Rachel Dinning rounds up 20 inspirational and motivational quotes from some of the most world-changing women in history – from pioneering women like Marie Curie ...

The Achaemenid Persian Empire grew to become the largest contiguous land empire then known to man, impressing both friend and foe alike with its relatively benign administration drawing on religious ...