The need for secret communications arose very early in civilization. It progressed due to the “intellectual arms race” ...

Precious recorded testimonies by the mothers, sisters, daughters and wives whose lives were devastated by the Bloody Sunday ...

The late Queen of England and Ireland was so legendary that her reign was officially crowned the Elizabethan era. But one ...

Burton has since written four further bestsellers, including The Muse and The Confession, and her books have been translated ...

Being asked to review a Horrible Histories book has opened the floodgates of nostalgia. Childhood memories have come flooding ...

Eventually in 1603 Elizabeth died and James was offered the throne. The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland. Although promising to return to ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

This was a conspiracy between English Catholics and continental powers to overthrow Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Queen ...