The 14th Century is often called the worst century in the whole of British history - plague, war and famine! And amidst all ...

Wow, just wow! “A new dawn has broken has it not? And it is wonderful. We always said if we had had the courage to change we ...

Once dubbed 'the dullest place on earth' by Charles Dickens, this small city hides a secret past as England's capital for a ...

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Historians have identified one specific execution in Hungary that they say stands out from the crowd for its complexity, ...

New productions of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” Annie Ernaux’s “The Years,” Robert Icke’s “Manhunt,” Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie,” and more.

Julian became an anchoress: one anchored to a place. A funeral service was sung as the entrance to her cell was sealed up. She walked in, but she wouldn’t walk out. This was her tomb — though perhaps ...

Admirers of Morris the revolutionary have shared his uncertainties. George Bernard Shaw thought Morris’s late-life addiction ...