In Gladiator, director Ridley Scott created a swords-and-sandals epic that was half-history and half-fiction, and that ...

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The history of the US presidency is littered with tales of extra-marital affairs and allegations of corruption. Jonathan ...

History, Mark Twain is said to have declared, doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. As Democrat and current vice president Kamala Harris and Republican former president Donald Trump run for ...

On the morning of 19 May 1536, Anne Boleyn climbed the scaffold erected on Tower Green, within the walls of the Tower of London. She gave a speech praising the goodness and mercy of the king, and ...

Armistice Day – today known as Remembrance Day in the UK and several Commonwealth countries, and Veterans Day in the USA – commemorates the armistice, an agreement to end the fighting of the First ...

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First produced in Germany, the cheap (but not-so-cheerful, as we’ll discover) Frozen Charlotte dolls gained immense popularity across Europe and in the United States. From the mid-19th century until ...

Jonathan Myerson’s excellent drama considers how the young Orson Welles shook up not just cinema, but radio and theatre too. A portrait of a young genius starring Lucas Aurelio as Welles, Miles Jupp ...