Mystery surrounds George McMahon who, having tried to assassinate Edward VIII, outed himself as an agent of a ‘foreign power’. Does the discovery of new Italian documents solve the puzzle or obscure it further?
After winning the biggest shooting prize in the Empire, Marjorie Foster joined the new pantheon of women making sporting headlines. On the eve of the Second World War, she had a new target in her sights: the War Office.
What happened in Britain after the Romans left? The names of those who remained – and those who arrived – may hold an answer.
The coronation of Charles III was dense with meaning. It’s complicated; and easy to misunderstand.
At 9pm on 26 July 1609, Thomas Harriot pointed his telescope at a five-day-old crescent moon. It made him the first person to train such an instrument on the skies and map the moon.
As senility came to be recognised as a distinct diagnosis, methods of protecting patients – from themselves and from others – had to change.
Recent royal crises reveal echoes of discontent in 1870s Britain, when disquiet with monarchy manifested in calls for its abolition.
Art reveals the past – if you know how to look.
What does it mean to be happy? For poets, medieval and modern, joy comes in many forms.
Child-murderer, arch villain, failed monarch, ‘northern’. Have efforts to redeem Richard III succeeded or is he still one of history’s worst kings?
