In the winter of 1836, a young French ballerina arrived in London to dance at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane – she would become a favourite dancer of the age and later, the richest woman in...
Britons have been building grand houses for centuries. Hudson’s Historic Houses & Gardens suggests a trip through the ages, taking in 8 of the best – though not necessarily the best...
The February/March issue of BBC World Histories is now on sale!
From a ‘pride of lions’ to a ‘misbelief of painters’, many of the terms we use every day have roots in the distant past – specifically, the medieval period. Here, Chloe...
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