Brush up on the Pole family, Charles V, the Holy Roman Empire & the history that shaped the events in Episode 1 as seen on ...

Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by balloon.

Wales legend Sam Warburton was stunned by a monstrous hit in the English Premiership over the weekend. The iconic flanker is ...

Thomas Tuchel beware: no England manager has endured defeat in his first match in charge since Sir Alf Ramsey's team lost to ...

With her Wolf Hall books, novelist Hilary Mantel made Tudor bad guy Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. But as a new TV adaptation begins, the question is: did she 'sidestep crucial matters'?

There’s a long conversation going on right in front of me between David Flatman and Trevor Woodman, the 2003 World Cup winner ...

A new production of Othello foregrounds what the play’s earliest audiences recognized: the psychological costs of war.

Kyra has an impressive list of ancestors including William Ellery, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, Robert Sedgwick, a general who was one of the first arrivals in America from England ...

The Virginia delegate may have spoken those words on March 23, 1775, but some historians doubt it. And at least two other men ...

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