The tragedy of Mary of Burgundy, snubbed heiress to one of Europe’s great dynasties, echoes down the ages.
On 22 November 1990 the Tory leader resigned. What forces brought about the end of her extraordinary premiership?
Sometimes when a tale concludes we want to know what happens next to fascinating characters. Even Shakespeare leaves his readers wondering.
Britain’s reverence for its National Health Service was developing long before the post-war promise of a New Jerusalem.
Donatello, one of Florence’s most distinguished sons, produced sculpture worthy of the ages.
Evelyn Waugh’s humour is sparkling and amusing, but with its anti-authority jibes and social commentary it is more than just a light laugh.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, the laudator temporis acti of the high Victorian age, showed us there is more than one way to write history.
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