Female physicians of the middle ages

What does your wee say about your health? Well, plenty – but perhaps not in quite the way medieval physicians understood it. Before the in-depth study of anatomy and physiology, establishing the cause

Ten creative thinkers who across the centuries helped shape Istanbul into the city it is today

WHAT are we doing here, Mum?” Navleen demanded. She gazed at the statues looming down at her from their plinths in London’s Parliament Square. It was half term and her mother, Simrat, had decided that

After a years-long battle to secure her inheritance as heiress of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Maria Theresia (pictured above) arrived in Prague, the capital of what was then Bohemia, clutching the

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

YOU’RE not to touch a single thing in here,” the woman in the kitchen said. She had that look, the look of a servant who thinks herself a cut above the rest. She was all stain-free apron, all hands on