Women rule!

The Land of the Rising Sun’s eight female rulers are all but forgotten, but their lives and reigns were filled with drama

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

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

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

They’d have loved the drama of it – bowing out almost exactly ten years apart. Born in the same year and with the same initials, both queens of the bonkbuster. One was a Hollywood lioness, the other a

The platinum blonde in British history