The origins of the seven-day week, its biblical roots and the balance between work and rest are shared by author Mark Gerson, ...

On October 6, in the year 1536, a pitiful figure was led from a dungeon in Vilvorde Castle near Brussels, Belgium. For nearly a year and a half, the man had suffered isolation in a dark, damp cell.

After losing her mother 12 years ago, Davinia Taylor couldn't bear the thought of dying young and leaving her four sons early ...