Between 1288 and 1300 European merchants competed with one another to obtain the right to collect duties on wine shipments…
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…
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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,…