The first detective

WITH MORE MULTIPLE MURDERERS PER CAPITA THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON THE PLANET, THE US HAS EARNED A BLOODY REPUTATION AS GROUND ZERO FOR SERIAL KILLERS

With a strength of character that belied her fragile looks, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun pushed the boundaries of royal portraiture and, after the French Revolution, challenged the loss of female influence via every frill and fold in her work

Samuel Pepys’s self-incriminating diaries

Some years back, ghost hunter Steve Parsons remarked to me that we were entering the twilight years of many great ghost hunters, those responsible for re-vitalising the field in the aftermath of World

There were 13 men: unlucky for someone. They were dressed to kill – but so was everyone else. In what was essentially an army camp, crammed with armed men, the assailants blended right in. Moving casu

How one monarch unified his nation and created a medieval superpower