St Brigid may have led the way, but there were other powerful, inspiring and influential women who blazed a trail in Medieval ...

Man's seemingly inconspicuous supporting characters are based on Marvel heroes and villains. Let's run through them.

On November 9, 1938, hundreds of Jews living in Germany were attacked and killed, their properties ransacked, and 30,000 were ...

With the Middle East teetering on the edge of the abyss since the Hamas attack on Israel in October, 2023, it would seem that ...

Berlin-based writer’s latest novel, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth, revolves around sculpted objects, absence, death and ...

Blair reports from the front line of the war between big business and the indigenous communities, all the while connecting ...

Even among Middle-earth's wizards, dwarves, hobbits, elves, and orcs, sometimes it's the humans in Lord of the Rings who come ...

Iron Maiden have written songs about dinosaurs, the Second World War and many, many things in between. So, here’s the history of Planet Earth as told through the metal legends’ lyrics.

An under cover book review by Jean-Thomas Nicole of The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China by Michael Sheridan ...

The New Shadow,’ which Tolkien left unfinished at his death, has a chilling warning about the dangers of historical amnesia ...

Ronald Hutton expertly untangles the complex web of religious, social, parliamentary and monarchist factions that brought ...

Michael B Barry reminds us that there was more than a hint of good fortune about how the events of the Spanish Armada unfolded in favour of the English ...