Unearthing the boy king

Missing for centuries, where are the final resting places of some of history’s greatest figures?

During four decades of classic car enthusiasm, I’ve personally encountered only three real examples of a barn find: I recall a straw-filled barn (literally) at a Cornish farm we camped on as a child,

Entrance to the Midas Mound at Gordion in ...

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

HAPPY birthday, dear Liv.” Olivia did her best not to roll her eyes. She would never be so ungracious – Jan was, after all, her oldest friend! She weighed the flat, rectangular parcel in her hand. “Yo

When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers