From voyages to battles, gods to monsters, heroics to cowardice, the Viking sagas explore all of these themes in magnificent detail

Europe’s frozen northeast became a new sacred frontier of holy war, forced conversion and occupation against Europe’s last pagans

Mighty Thor, hammer in hand, is one of the most recognisable characters in Norse mythology, synonymous with strength, virility and thunder. In the Viking Age, he was revered as a dependable presence i

So Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in October 1876, charting the latest instalment of the Holbein cult. He was renting a room in Isleworth, west London, still hoping for a religious career

BORN in Tasmania in 1909, Errol Flynn had a tumultuous childhood. Despite being sent to some of the best schools in the world, he was expelled from most of them due to his unruly behaviour. As a teena

On Thursday 11 October 1984, Conservative politician Norman Tebbit had good reason to feel satisfied. As trade and industry secretary, he had just delivered a rousing speech to the Conservative party