Gideon Rachman is right (“Eyes down and history books open for Brexit bingo”, December 1). For a comparable period of crippling division in English politics we do have to look back to our 17th-century ...

As a tourist destination and historical site, the Qajar-era (1789-1925) cemetery will be open to the public once the project is completed, Nasrollah Ebrahimi said on Friday. “The project will be ...

Marble Hill was built beside the River Thames in 1724 as a haven from an abusive husband and the Georgian court, for a royal mistress who was described by her poet friend Alexander Pope as “a ...

Gridlock and stasis, we're told, are the scourges of our current politics, and we (most of us) don't like it. But it could be worse. It could be chaos and upheaval. Such was the state of things in mid ...

Restoration historiography has so far remained silent regarding the alliance between the exiled royalists and the recusant religious houses in the Low Countries. This article examines the assistance ...

An undated photo shows sanctuary paintings at the Shrewsbury Cathedral in western England. (Credit: Diocese of Shrewsbury.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Wall paintings dating back to the 19 th ...

Lintels will be repaired and crumbling mortar from 1950s work replaced in a two-week project at the 4,500-year-old Wiltshire site. Experts hope no more repairs will be needed this century. Heather ...