Becoming pope was a big deal for a cardinal and his family. Leading candidates known as papabili (pope-ables) began strategising and negotiating even before a pontiff died.

The “let’s kill all the lawyers” line comes in the second scene of Act IV of “Henry ... VI, Part 2,” in a conversation between the rebel leader Jack Cade and his aide-de-camp, Dick the Butcher. The ...

His earlier plays were mainly histories and comedies such as 'Henry VI', 'Titus Andronicus', 'A ... author Francis Meres described Shakespeare as England’s greatest writer in comedy and tragedy.

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At a time when American Catholics faced many restrictions, Washington went out of his way to make them feel included in the ...

James VI was just ... James’s eldest son, Henry, Duke of Rothesay was an instruction manual in how to be a good king and not a tyrant. It illustrated James’s personal beliefs and values and was to ...

Those inside rugby already had passing familiarity with the schoolboy exploits of Henry Pollock, a star at Stowe and an England Under-18 captain. But having been granted an opportunity to impress ...

The Bank of England has cut its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, citing lower UK inflation. The move, which had been widely expected, brings the main cost of borrowing in ...

The Bank of England cut its main interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.25% today, despite an unexpected three-way split among policymakers as US President Donald Trump's tariffs weigh on ...

The Bank of England has cut interest rates from 4.5% to 4.25%, citing Donald Trump's trade war as one of the key reasons for the reduction in borrowing costs. Further rate cuts are expected in the ...

Henry Pollock is the talk of British — and European — rugby after being selected for the British and Irish Lions at the age of 20 and after playing barely 30 minutes for England.

The Bank of England cut interest rates today from 4. ... The remainder are mainly either on tracker deals or their lender's standard variable rate (SVR). The good news is that mortgage rates ...