This year marks the 65th anniversary of the grand bilingual and tricultural experiment that is Sudbury’s university. This ...

Iranians have never been themselves since they ceased to be Persians, but it's never too late to reverse history. Now is the ...

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

Literally just a few kilometers from Germany, and situated in the heart of France’s Alsace region, is the stunningly beautiful city of Strasbourg. Alsace has changed hands between France and Germany ...

Assassin's Creed has taken fans to a impressive range of timelines and locations so far, and there's a few outstanding ones ...

Children were supposed to learn the lesson that while we might have become peripheral, once upon a time we Irish rescued ...

Look beyond the world's usual city break destinations and uncover a collection of underrated, under-the-radar cities that belong on every traveller’s must-visit list.

Rome was sacked by Germanic Visigoths in 410, and then in 476, Germanic leader Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus. It seems to fit the brief of a societal collapse ...

Downfall. The decline and eventual “fall” of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE was not due to a single event, but rather a series of factors that gradually weakened it over centuries. The ...

The fall of the western Roman empire was a death by a thousand cuts, but one that cut deeper than most was bureaucracy. It fell under the weight of its own stubbornness. Leadership clung to ...

If the Roman Empire converting to Catholicism was a miracle, Catholicism enduring beyond the Roman Empire’s fall was even more miraculous. Leo is thus a fitting name for a pope to bear in our ...