The dual biography of two remarkable women - Catherine Parr and Anne Askew. One was the last quee...

One of the most fabulous treasures of the Renaissance, the Borgia Chalice, carries with it a dark...

Peter I, Emperor of all the Russias, has been a subject of curiosity and scrutiny for almost thre...

Attitudes towards `labour', in the wake of the Black Death, shown to range from early protest lit...

At a meeting in East London, art dealer Catherine Lacy is shown six paintings from a previously u...

"e;Going round the world"e; is an idea that has excited people ever since itwas realize...

Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy: Essays on the Philosophical Cast of Jefferson’s Writ...

The greatest of medieval monarchs, Charles the Great (742-814) towers over every notion we have o...

In the political ferment of the Tudor century one family above all others was always at the troub...

They say that history is written by the winners. Not according to Derek Wilson. In this fascinati...

Derek Wilson examines a set of relationships which illustrate just how dangerous life was in the ...