Guest Articles

A selection of the very best guest insights from historians, experts and influencers covering a wide variety of different topics and timelines.

An old iron chastity belt on display

Mina Moriarty: Debunking history's biggest sex myths
Dr Meredith Brand holding a book inside a museum

Archaeologist explores the secrets of Egypt's pyramids
A selfie of Tony McMahon inside an Egyptian tunnel

An investigative historian cracks Ancient Egypt's Cosmic Code
Gary Sokolov standing on the train tracks leading up to Auschwitz

Telling Gary Sokolov’s story, the son of the Tattooist of Auschwitz

Grigori Rasputin

8 craziest bits of history
Portrait of Charles Ignatius Sancho

Books on Black British history, culture and life that you should read

Portrait of Henry VIII

3 times Henry VIII almost died without providing a male heir
A water colour of Asquith Xavier superimposed over a railway line

Asquith Xavier: The man who broke the colour bar at Euston station