Ancient Greece had a rich panoply of deities and making sense of the web of family trees can be challenging. Matt Doherty ...

The star of Loki and The Night Manager hosts a retelling of the destruction of Pompeii – one that manages to make one of the ...

The Odyssey is one of the most celebrated stories ever told, recounting the tale Greek hero Odysseus’s journey home from the Trojan War. It should have taken him weeks – and it would have done, had he ...

He has sailed to Troy with the coalition of Greek rulers determined to recover Helen, wife of Menelaus, after she was taken by the Trojan prince Paris. He has fought in a war that lasted ten years.

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

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Expect ambition, courage and ruthlessness, as Mike explores what the stories of Elizabeth I, Winston Churchill and six other leaders can teach us today, in the 21st century. This page contains ...

She started a riot by sharing a kiss with her female lover on the stage of the Moulin Rouge in 1907, and was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1948: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette – or simply Colette, as she ...

Duke William of Normandy, who would become known as William the Conqueror, arguably changed the course of English history more profoundly than any ruler before or since. Despite beginning life as a ...

The Church calendar was deeply ingrained in the lives of medieval people and the passing of time was marked by Church festivals as much as by the day and month. The Church year was divided into two ...

As Britain’s longest-reigning monarch – a rule of 68 years and counting – it’s fair to say that Queen Elizabeth II has probably seen it all. Prime ministers have come and gone; the royal family itself ...