The Remigia cave, about eighty miles north of Valencia, features paintings dating from around 6500 BC. Some depict bands of archers hunting ibex; others appear to show executions. These are the ones ...

The most enigmatic and in some ways the most tragic victim of this process was Richard II. He is the central figure in Helen ...

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The new Duke of Buckingham now outranked every other nobleman in England. Moreover, his seemingly unassailable place in the ...

It’s not a bad life for the leaders of the British bourgeoisie! There’s plenty for them to protect in their capitalist system ...

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Was there ever a group of men so wealthy and powerful as the American robber barons of the 19th century? Their names and the dynasties they founded, the ostentatious palaces they built for themselves ...

He was trying, he told me, to get to ‘Ex-ee-en’, and the woman who could be just glimpsed through the tiny aperture at the Foreign Guests ticket booth simply could not understand him. Neither, ...

In 2014, with the publication of her elegant, haunting debut, After Me Comes the Flood, it became immediately apparent that Sarah Perry was an extraordinary new talent to reckon with in English ...

father was a prosperous merchant from eastern Siberia who imported tea from China via the border town of Kyakhta, while his mother came from a genteel family of Baltic German ancestry. Due to his ...

On a mid-December day in 1642, mounted troops of William Waller’s Parliamentarian army stormed into Winchester Cathedral. The havoc they created was shocking: they smashed the organ to splinters, tore ...