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In the oppressive heat of his cell in the Mont-Valérien military prison west of Paris on 31 August 1898, Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert-Joseph Henry wrote a despairing letter to his wife, drank half a bott

It’s time to wrap up our rewatch of the second series of Fortean TV. And to think the unthinkable: are the zany graphics, Fanthorpe’s gnomic utterances and the surface level treatment of both the seri

Orlando Whitfield wades into the murky backwaters of the multibillion-pound art market to tell the true stories of the world’s most thrilling frauds, forgeries and heists

Had Tchaikovsky had his way, his The Tempest might not actually have had a tempest in it at all. As he first pondered his Shakespearean fantasy-overture in early 1873, the Russian composer considered

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...