SHE’S a hot favourite to walk off with the Best Actress BAFTA this evening – but win or lose, Irish star Saoirse Ronan has ...

Historian Gareth Russell has written Queen James, a biography of King James VI and I - the last king of Scotland - who moved to London ...

Queen Mary of Denmark has been spotted enjoying a ‘family break’ in Tasmania while taking some time off from her royal duties ...

In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded. After attempting to restore Catholicism to Scotland and two disastrous marriages, she was forced to abdicate and fled to England in 1567. She was ...

Unicorn Theatre is presenting the new stage adaptation of multi-award-winning writer Malorie Blackman's beloved novel Pig ...

A medieval castle in the Yorkshire Dales is set to reopen next month with a new season of events. Bolton Castle, near Leyburn - owned by the same family for more than 600 years, and regarded as one of ...

A medieval castle in the Yorkshire Dales is set to reopen next month with a new season of events. Bolton Castle, near Leyburn ...

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow started Mary’s Meals in a shed in the Highlands in 2002. Today the charity feeds more than 2.4 ...

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 ...