The Baron of Retz and veteran of the Hundred Years’ War confessed to monstrous crimes of torturing and murdering children.

In the West, he is most often depicted as the antagonist – if a noble and revered one – to the crusader king, Richard the ...

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As Kate and Billy prepare to open their club, their hopes are high. But the duo are using stolen money, so this is a dangerous undertaking, as becomes clear when the Saluccis drop by for a visit.

The name sounds like an old folk legend, or the title of a sci-fi story, but for the generations of isolated families in ...

From D-Day to HMS Belfast and Sir Winston Churchill, The Royal Mint’s military-themed coins pay tribute to the nation’s most ...

Steven Knight doesn’t mess around with the subject matter for his gritty, historical British crime dramas. Like Peaky Blinders before it, new Disney+ drama A Thousand Blows catapults viewers head on ...

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 ...