During the late 16th century, a cultural phenomenon emerged among Europe’s elite: the Grand Tour. Essentially a long excursion around the continent’s ancient locations, the Grand Tour would endure for ...

During the summer of 1947, flying saucers were capturing the world’s imagination against a backdrop of rising tensions ...

First published in 1974, Robert Pirsig’s philosophical novel Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, a story of a road trip and a troubled father-son relationship, became a bestseller. Why? And ...

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Why did the Eurovision Song Contest begin? Eurovision was started by the European Broadcasting Union in 1956. “I think a lot of people mistake the establishment of Eurovision as some sort of postwar ...

In the early 1980s, Oleg Gordievsky was arguably the most important spy in the world. This was not primarily because of his work for what was ostensibly his employer, the KGB, but because he was a ...

Of all the men found guilty of treason and adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn, Mark Smeaton, ascending the scaffold and placing his head on the block on 17 May 1536, stood out. A court musician in Anne’s ...

That is the setting for a six-part period drama streaming on Sky Atlantic in the UK from 2 May, based on the 2018 novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris. Lale Sokolov (played by Jonah ...