In the West, he is most often depicted as the antagonist – if a noble and revered one – to the crusader king, Richard the ...

In Disney+ drama A Thousand Blows, viewers are transported into the violent underworld of 1880s London to meet an all-female ...

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 ...

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Anyone who strayed into the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly around an area known as Troublesome Creek, might have come across a close-knit ...

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

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

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 ...