History

Formed in 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a one-party state, governed and ruled by the Communist Party. A new TV documentary series, The Soviet Union: 100th Anniversary 2022, explores the country that Winston Churchill famously referred to as: ‘A riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’

A little liberté, égalité, and fraternité in honor of Bastille Day on July 14. A few oddities to remind you that the French Revolution was ridiculously awesome.

The teenage queen was embraced by France in 1770. Twenty-three years later, she lost her head to the guillotine. (But she never said, "Let them eat cake")

There's a lot to learn about Ancient Egypt - pharaohs, the Nile, Cleopatra, Napoleon. And it's not all Ancient history either! Check out this Timeline of Egypt from Deliberate Travel Kids to cover the whole history of Egypt, not just Ancient Egypt and Egyptology. NB. The Arab Spring was in 2010/11 not 2015

Online British Newspapers are an incredibly useful resource for genealogy and history research. The largest collection of online British Newspapers is the British Newspaper Archive with over 700 historical titles and 20 million pages.

Anne Boleyn's famous pearl necklace, with a golden initial B, has been lost to history— but at the Balenciaga runway show at Paris Fashion Week, we saw something very similar. What happened to her necklace?

A piece of parchment with writings on it in an ancient and forgotten language. If touched at all, it will teleport the user, along with the objects in her possession, to a very specific spot about 30 feet in the air. Some believe this spot is where the event happened.

Flashbacks allow the writer to give the reader a glimpse in your ancestor's world before the story.

Paratroopers are a common part of modern warfare, it's hard to imagine a modern army without an airborne or air assault element. This form of combat was

In just about a month, students around the world (or at least the northern hemisphere) will be asking their social studies teachers, “why do we have to study history?” Of course there a…