Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get…
In September 1649 ship’s surgeon John Conny was deeply relieved and praised God that ‘all our men [are] in reasonable…
When it opened in the Malibu mountains in 1962, the ‘Teen-Age Beauty Farm’ – a combination spa, charm school, weight-loss…
In October 1929 thousands of members of Britain’s Book Society received a new hardback through the post. Whiteoaks, by an…
In March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) – sat down with former…
By the time Plato departed the court of Dionysius the Younger in 361 BC, his relations with the Syracusan autocrat…
In June 1925 a sarcophagus was discovered in Dorset’s Sherborne Abbey and widely reported to be that of ‘Ethelbert’, a…
It was the greatest contest in the history of art – and arguably the most mysterious too. The year was…
Lizzie and Frank Ward started seeing each other in early 1860. They went for walks in the northern Pennsylvania woods,…
When the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II seized Constantinople in 1453 shockwaves radiated through Christian Europe. According to Pope Pius II,…