2015’s Wolf Hall adapted two of Hilary Mantel’s historical novels for the screen, the 2009 book of the same name and the 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. And Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light adapts ...

From passionate declarations to quiet devotion, these letters from history's greatest lovers offer a glimpse into their deep ...

The most famous gay couple of antiquity… … were possibly really just close platonic friends. Whether Alexander the Great and ...

Affairs are common. But they don't make us happy, and often lead to divorce. Better to focus on improving - and being ...

Unless you’re a hermit, you’ve seen Herman’s Hermits at the New York State Fair before. The ‘60s pop group, starring Peter ...

It is one of thousands of such heart-rending pleas that appeared in papers across the country, starting even before slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and continuing as late as the ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

Henry VIII is keen to build up his fledgling navy from the 15 ships ... The Virgin Queen never married or had children. James VI of Scotland was her closest royal relative as they were both ...

Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII. She didn't expect to be Queen. She was third in line to the throne. Both her brother and sister died without having children so Elizabeth became Queen.

The Earl of Yarmouth is locked in a court battle with his parents over the future of their £85 million ancestral estate.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...