history

Someone asked what was the exact moment things started getting worse. Which of these 21 suggestions was your tipping point?

Somebody asked historians about their favourite piece of obscure UK history – 19 fascinating stories almost lost to the mists of time

Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain said this country was ‘not built by immigrants’ and was schooled into next year

‘What’s a glaring historical inaccuracy that’s often said and really annoys you?’ – 23 ‘facts’ from the past that people always get wrong

‘What’s a bizarre piece of history that sounds completely made up but is 100% real?’ – 21 strange but true happenings from the past

Someone asked people to share ‘mind blowing history perspective facts’ – 15 fascinating nuggets

This guide to ‘decoding English place names’ is a truly fascinating journey through history

‘Who is a bad guy in history who actually wasn’t a bad guy?’ – 13 leading nominations

This 1940s leaflet to persuade employers to take a chance on women is half patronising sexism and half great advice for anyone’s boss

‘Wow, people really used to do that 50 years ago’ – 16 ‘normal’ things in 2025, that by 2075 will be seen as barbaric

‘What was the biggest waste of money in human history?’ – 17 times money was spaffed up the tallest of walls

People have been sharing the historical facts they weren’t taught in school – 17 pieces of the past that might have passed you by

Experts have recreated how Richard III might have sounded – and it’s nothing like Laurence Olivier

People have been sharing their most tenuous historical claims to fame – 17 eye-opening links to the past

This passer-by’s most British of corrections about ‘London Bridge’ had Americans proper fuming