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 ...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

One-half of the duo behind a local Oak Island podcast has written his 12th book on the mystery featured prominently on the History Channel. Theories surrounding the mystery of Oak Island in Nova ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Modern global regulatory bodies should draw upon the repertoire of strategies used by their 1930s predecessors to survive today’s threats.

Glasgow historians say they are "optimistic" an ancient sycamore with links to Mary, Queen of Scots can be saved after it was badly damaged in Storm Éowyn. The Darnley Sycamore in the south of ...

Storm Éowyn has caused severe damage to a tree considered one of the most important in Scotland. The Darnley Sycamore, or Plane tree, stands on the outskirts of Darnley in Glasgow and is ...