As we get ready to throw ourselves back into the lavish world of Bridgerton’s Ton and the scandalous commentary of a certain ...

During the summer of 1947, flying saucers were capturing the world’s imagination against a backdrop of rising tensions ...

Wealthy Europeans of the 17th and 18th centuries often embarked on a Grand Tour, just like Colin Bridgerton in the latest ...

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The excellent three-part series concludes with the story of how in 1985, with the help of British intelligence, double agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped across the border to Finland from the USSR. As ...

Dr Carolyn Harris is an instructor in history at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies and the author of three books: Magna Carta and Its Gifts to Canada; Queenship and Revolution in ...

Ask a group of people today what the 18th-century polymath Benjamin Franklin should be remembered for the most, and chances are that a variety of answers will come up. Was he primarily a man of words, ...

What were the Evil May Day Riots? The Evil May Day Riots (also known as the Ill May Day Riots) were violent disturbances that took place in London during the evening of 30 April 1517 and early hours ...

In the early 1980s, Oleg Gordievsky was arguably the most important spy in the world. This was not primarily because of his work for what was ostensibly his employer, the KGB, but because he was a ...

In modern perceptions, the term ‘Neanderthal’ is synonymous with thoughtlessness and brutishness. This is a dated idea – crafted over decades to create an image of these supposedly club-wielding ...