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 ...

Did Catherine the Great really have sex with a horse? No, Catherine the Great did not meet an outrageously lurid death during an attempt at bestiality. No, she had not rigged up a harness-and-pulley ...

Upon its release in 2018, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was widely seen as setting a new standard for historical accuracy in videogames, with its painstaking efforts to bring the brutal and beautiful ...

Set in Victorian London, Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s latest drama stars Malachi Kirby as Hezekiah Moscow, a recent arrival from the Caribbean who gets caught up in the world of bare-knuckle ...