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A compelling account of why Ireland was so very Catholic for so long, and why that changed
When Berlin-based journalist Derek Scally visited Christmas Vigil ...
The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual ...
Initially a slaving vessel itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the ...
One of Britain's premier historians overturns received wisdom on a much-maligned king
George III, Britain's longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as ...
Britain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it.
In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces the tale of how after ...
Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have ...
All too often, a dynasty is defined by its men: by their personalities, their wars and reigns, their laws and decisions. Their mothers, wives, sisters ...
In July 1484 Tudor agent William Collingbourne - executed for treason in 1484 - tacked up a lampoon to the walls of St Paul's Cathedral: 'The ...
Despite their frequent visits to England, Queen Victoria never quite trusted the Romanovs. In her letters she referred to 'horrid Russia' and was adamant that ...
The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at ...
For hundreds of years, the islands and their constituent tribes that make up the British Isles have lived next door to each other in a ...
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'
The Sassoons were one ...
'Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster' John of Gaunt (1340-1399) was the son of one king and the father of another. He claimed a ...
Was Charles I a tyrant? He was a small man with a stammer, who inherited three kingdoms when young but ultimately lost his head. His ...