Christie’s was set this month to sell the 17th century painting known as Saint Sébastien, by Greek master El Greco, but ...

Undoubtedly one of Britain’s greatest heroes, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, is known mainly for his victory ...

Graphic design.

In The Merchant of Venice 1936, which comes to The Lowry next week, Shakespeare’s harsh plot snaps into place against this backdrop. Shylock, its anti-hero, is a Jewish moneylender who becomes ...

Major Edward McGauran served as a soldier on the continent and his adventures are recorded in the two books he wrote. This is ...

But here she is speaking about her great-grandmother and aunts, women with nicknames like Machine-Gun Molly and Sarah ...

Dresden marked the 80th anniversary of the Allied Bombing of the city in World War II, commemorating the 25,000 victims with several events.

Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster', who breathed his last in Leicester Castle on February 3rd, 1399, at the age of fifty-eight, was the son of Edward III ... armour ready to fight to the ...

Dennis King says he is stepping down as the premier of Prince Edward Island, calling the job he has held for nearly six years "a privilege and an honour of a lifetime." The Progressive ...

As a royal presentation piece, writes royal blog The Crown Chronicles, the Coronation brooch would likely have been presented to members of the royal family to mark King Edward VII’s accession to the ...

George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, spent his life engaged in a power struggle that pitted cousins and siblings against ...