The edict of nantes ends france’s wars of religion

If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

The Bohemian King Wenceslas really was good, but his reward for gracious piety was not, discovers Ian Morton

The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...

With Hallowe’en out of the way, Christmas is the next big ghostly occasion in the UK traditional calendar. But what, one may wonder, of the rest of Europe? Ghost hunter Peter Underwood called Europe “

The author of a Spanish literary masterpiece

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