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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Sometimes referred to as one of history’s first recorded serial killers, Gilles de Rais, the Baron of Retz, was executed in October 1440 for the murders of at least 140 children. Whether he was ...

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 ...

But there is another compelling ‘what if’ question that very nearly became reality. How might history have looked if JFK hadn’t been president at all? Years before his death, before he even took ...

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 ...

In medieval and early modern Europe, the education of a young royal was an important business. If they weren’t already sitting on the throne and having to quickly learn the ropes, they had to be ...

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 ...