Days before Germany’s election, signs of stagnation in the AfD campaign offer reasons to be cheerful amid right-wing bluster, ...

Dusty Springfield had already proven herself as a master of the chirping pop track and the dramatic torch song. But taking a crack at sultry American soul seemed like a stretch, with even Springfield ...

IN a grotesque display of political voyeurism, the British Unionist Labour Party has published footage of people being detained for deportation ...

More than 60 years ago, the United States witnessed the second British Invasion. While the first set the stage for the American Revolutionary War, the second was pivotal in the transformation of pop ...

The prison scenes were filmed at various locations, with an exterior shot of Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland standing in ...

Another filming location for Wentworth Prison was Linlithgow Palace in Edinburgh, the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots. Outlander fans will also recognise Scotland as the stand-in for the New World, ...

For centuries, historians speculated about the final residence of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. The famous Bayeux Tapestry ...

Whatever it is about medieval England that fired up a metalhead from Old Kilpatrick to start writing historical novels, it’s clearly potent ...

The Mercian Chronicles Mercia is something of an orphan among the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England. Despite having dominated the country’s core for a quarter of a millennium from AD 625 ...

Churchill himself wrote in “The Second World War”: “As can be seen from my memoranda of that time (late September 1940), I never faced the threat of an invasion of England in 1941.” ...

Into this mix came Emma of Normandy, a noblewoman who married Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred the Unready and later became the wife of Cnut. Emma was the mother to two kings of England by her ... where Cnut ...