The question of who owns Greenland rings throughout history, arguably beginning in the Viking Age. But since the Second World ...
Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and ...
Following the death of the former US president in December, historian Mark White recalls the life and work of a leader whose ...
When it comes to popes, the current split between men and women is 266 to zero. But, as Jonny Wilkes explores, that hasn’t ...
Poisoned sweets. Criminal misdeeds. And a sex scandal involving… the prime-minister.
The SAS changed the way that the Allies fought the Second World War. A group of motley misfits whose origins lay in a spy’s propaganda exercise, these bearded ruffians started as joke and yet ...
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Bored of waiting for his bride, Henry had decided to welcome her with what he considered a hilarious prank. He and a group of friends rode to Rochester in matching hoods and capes, like Robin Hood and ...