A supernaturally athletic ghost is alleged to have menaced the towns and cities of 19th-century England. Able to spew fire ...

Get the inside line on the lives of the Mitford sisters: a story of glamour, scandal, politics and their enduring hold on ...

The eldest of the Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford turned the eccentricities of her family and social class into sharp, ...

Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became ...

Drawn from the British aristocracy to the heart of Hitler’s inner circle, Unity Mitford’s life was a disturbing collision of ...

Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...

Queen Ranavalona I of the Kingdom of Imerina (present-day Madagascar) violently purged her kingdom of foreign influence, ...

The setting for this myth is ancient Mesopotamia, a civilisation whose name literally means “the land between the rivers”. These rivers – the Tigris and Euphrates – run through modern-day Iraq and ...

From peaches and lentils to your favourite herb, ancient Mediterranean doctors had strong opinions about what you should (and ...

A powerful prophecy was made in the Laxdaela Saga, a tragic 13th-century Icelandic tale filled with gory twists and turns. It ...