A troubled childhood

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

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

MISS, I say hold on!” a distant male voice called. Briefly glancing over her shoulder while emerging from Evelyn’s the furriers, Molly Warley smartened her pace and continued walking along London’s Sl

Held in high esteem and lavished with furs, velvet and precious stones, young male choristers-turned-bishops were all the rage at Christmas in the Middle Ages, says Matthew Dennison

It was Christmas once again, and Matilda would need her magical woodland spirit more than ever

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