Was charles i truly a tyrant?

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

Charles II visited Norfolk in September 1671, accompanied by other members of the royal family and a large retinue of gentlemen and servants. Royal visits were a great rarity in the 17th century, as w

How the Qin forged a great power from the fragments of the Warring States

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

On a cold morning in North Carolina’s Ocracoke Inlet, an infamous career was ending in smoke, blood and fury. Edward Teach, better known as ‘Blackbeard’, the most notorious pirate of his age, was abou

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