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Matilda of Flanders sits in the shadow of her more famous husband but, writes Tracy Borman, she was an able political player ...

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Greek myths of the Amazons blended kernels of truth with male fantasy to create a legend that has lasted for millennia.

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Who are all the kings and queen of Britain? Ahead of the coronation of King Charles III, discover who has the worn the crown since the time of William Conquerer, and how it has passed through the ...

The pope – the supreme pontiff, the Bishop of Rome, God’s representative on Earth – is the head of the Catholic Church worldwide, the leader of a faith with 1.2 billion adherents today. Modern popes ...

Iran enjoys one of the richest historical lineages of any modern state stretching back several thousand years. This history can be broadly divided into three epochs: the pre-Islamic ancient period ...

Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...