Doña gracia a leader of europe’s jewish diaspora

The author of a Spanish literary masterpiece

The Barbary corsair ship appeared suddenly on the horizon, bristling with cannon. Its decks swarming with armed men, it sliced through the waves at a clip that its quarry – the British merchant ship A

Andrew Graham-Dixon tells Carla Passino why he thinks we have read Vermeer wrong all along– and who the Girl with a Pearl Earring really is

The search for the mythical relic unites the two strongest currents of European spirituality: Christianity and the legends of Arthur and his knights

Jewish teenager who volunteered for the Dutch resistance ...

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the