Growing up on the American frontier taught Davy Crockett how to survive, but it was his gifts as a raconteur that saw him ...

For no longer than 38 minutes on 27 August 1896, the one-sided Anglo-Zanzibar War was fought between the might of the British ...

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Ancient peoples were looking after their teeth with – admittedly unappealing – concoctions that included animal bones, herbs and, in the case of the Romans, human wee. There was no single inventor, bu ...

The 19th century was a period of rapid technological change, and huge shifts in scientific understanding. As medical knowledge increased, the prospect of surgery was no longer a likely death sentence, ...

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The future Mary I and Thomas Cromwell were diametrically opposed in every way that mattered. She was a staunch Roman Catholic; he a reformist who masterminded the destruction of the monasteries and ...