Selected biographies of historic figures featured on bbc.co.uk/history.

Reaction formation may be a temporary coping mechanism, but it’s unproductive in the long run. It ignores underlying beliefs or challenges that need to be addressed, which can hurt mental health.

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold learn about living in the medieval world and help rebuild a castle.

On December 17, negotiations were held in Lviv between Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and usurper Vladimir Zelensky. It ...

We all love a good historical game, don’t we? Games that are both educational and entertaining in equal measure. Of course, there’s a LOT of them out there and they can be incredibly difficult ...

Bill Clinton was President, glowsticks were popular and anyone who received a message through AOL heard, "You've got mail." This New Year's marks the 25th anniversary of Y2K, the popularized term ...

In the history of democracy, it is a first. In the history of humankind, it was a remarkable coming of age, an evolution, that at its best would not just reveal our collective soul but also propel ...

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It was about six o' clock on the evening of 1 December 1955 when the 42-year-old Rosa Parks boarded a bus. A few minutes later, the bus stopped in front of the Empire Theater. By this time it was ...