Cleopatra’s afterlives

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

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

In July 1575, Robert Dudley enlisted mythological figures to convince Elizabeth I to wed him. Exactly 450 years later, artist Lindsey Mendick reveals how and why she reinterpreted their encounter in her installation for Kenilworth Castle

A Ukrainian PoW’s story Dmytro Chorny had been ...

Shortly after the queen rose on 10 June 1688, she felt a familiar swell of pain. “Send for the king!” she called, while her ladies helped her back into bed. Maria (Mary) of Modena was in labour. Soon