Historical men and women

Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded in 1618. His widow had an extraordinary way of grieving for her loss. The demise of Sir Walter Ra...

Charles VII (1403-61) was the French king who could have saved Joan of Arc from being burned at the stake but refused to do so. C...

During the 19th century large areas of what is now the Irish Republic were owned by English landlords, many of whom did not live there...

As Bishop of Durham from 1494 to 1501 Richard Foxe held a very important position. For one thing, Durham was a very important and weal...

Anton van Leeuwenhoek is often credited as being the inventor of the microscope, but that is not actually the case. It would also be ...

Every schoolchild knows the story about how King Alfred burned the cakes he was supposed to be minding and got a severe telling off f...

Alain Resnais was one of the more notable “Left Bank” directors of the French “New Wave” that emerged in the 1950s. He outlived most ...