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The name sounds like an old folk legend, or the title of a sci-fi story, but for the generations of isolated families in ...

It is well overdue that this particular rumour about Russian empress Catherine the Great is sent to the glue factory ...

Naughty young royals would escape punishment from their teachers by having someone else nearby to take the whipping… or did ...

A notorious tale of royal scandal claims King Eadwig abandoned his own coronation feast for a ménage à trois. But did it really happen – or was it a medieval smear campaign? Historian Katherine Weiker ...

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

Upon its release in 2018, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was widely seen as setting a new standard for historical accuracy in videogames, with its painstaking efforts to bring the brutal and beautiful ...

When did Maria Theresa come to power? Ascending the Habsburg throne in 1740, at 23 years old, Maria Theresa assumed rule at a perilous moment for her empire. The state’s coffers were empty and its ...

Redneck is a divisive term in the United States. Today it is often viewed as a slur, to refer to a working-class, uneducated, white American from the rural South or Appalachian region. To many, it ...

But there is another compelling ‘what if’ question that very nearly became reality. How might history have looked if JFK hadn’t been president at all? Years before his death, before he even took ...