The Rest Is History

"Enough of the Princeps, what remains to be described, is the monster..." The Roman empero... more

The Roman historian Suetonius’ biography of the controversial Emperor Tiberius is one of h... more

The Roman historian Suetonius’ The Lives of the Caesars, written during the early imperial... more

How did a Russian spy manage to infiltrate the upper echelons of London and New York socie... more

The story of Wojtek - the bear who took on the Nazis - amidst the death and devastation of... more

The Nazi invasion of Poland is one of the most harrowing episodes of the Second World War,... more

By the 11th of April 1939, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were in the process of drawing up a ... more

Following the Munich agreement of September 1938, Nazi troops marched into Czechoslovakia ... more

On 17th September 1938, in Munich, one of the most extraordinary meetings in history took ... more

Throughout the course of the 1930s, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party has overwhelmingly, terrifyi... more

Ludwig Van Beethoven, like his precursor and possible acquaintance Mozart, is one of the m... more

In 1756 a musical prodigy was born in Salzburg, Austria: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Thanks t... more

“And from that moment on, he was addressed as emperor and Augustus!” The coronation of Cha... more

“Here was a program to wet the ambitions of warlords as well as scholars, and to send men ... more

The Frankish king, Charlemagne the Great, is one of the titanic figures of European histor... more

By 711 Europe and the Frankish warlords were facing a graver threat than ever before. Band... more

Following the death of the legendary Frankish King Clovis, his son Clothar I divided the m... more

The Rise of the Franks - a mighty host of warlords; forefathers of the western world and f... more