The anecdotal works of the veterinarian James ‘Alf’ Wight have captivated readers for decades, been turned into a popular ...

The biopic Lee, starring Kate Winslet, tells the story of the revered war photographer Lee Miller, exploring her unique lens ...

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Written by Graeme Garden of The Goodies fame, here’s a drama that tells the darkly comic tale of John Romulus Brinkley (1885–1942), a quack physician who transplanted goat testicles into men. Brinkley ...

When the adoptive brothers Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus became co-rulers in AD 161, the Roman empire was enjoying a golden age of progress, prosperity and peace. For nearly 200 years – going back ...

It’s often said that it feels like we, in the third decade of the 21st century, live in an ‘Orwellian’ age. Our likenesses and movements are captured by omnipresent CCTV cameras; our innermost ...

The home of the presidency has stood as an icon of American democracy for more than two centuries, but it was designed by an ...

In 1862, at a time when interest in ballooning was still at its height, two Victorian men began a flight to make a series of ...

Dozens of nobles from across the Holy Roman Empire met for crisis talks on a summer’s day in 1184, but the proceedings ended ...