Following the death of the former US president in December, historian Mark White recalls the life and work of a leader whose ...

Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and ...

When it comes to popes, the current split between men and women is 266 to zero. But, as Jonny Wilkes explores, that hasn’t ...

It’s a story of extravagant lies, homemade bombs and adrenaline-pumped commandos. Joshua Levine charts the formative years of ...

Poisoned sweets. Criminal misdeeds. And a sex scandal involving… the prime-minister.

In life, Jeremy Bentham was a gifted philosopher fuelled by the ideals of the Enlightenment, a master of the law, and the father of utilitarianism. The theory he devised states that our actions can ...

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Saddle up and discover the most famous cowboys who shaped the American Frontier, exploring how their stories intertwined with ...