History’s greatest conundrums and mysteries solved

It’s there beside the guildhall. A large grey stone surrounded by Victorian railings. Over the years, countless visitors to Kingston-upon-Thames have strolled past it, many barely registering its exis

Without England’s most notorious Tudor king, the country’s religious and political history would’ve looked very different

The posthumous reputation of James VI and I

That threatened thrones

Strange murder mysterie s from times gone by

In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle