King Philip II of Spain decreed Madrid – a somewhat sleepy mountain town in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula – the capital ...

THE royal art of playing the part to perfection was never better illustrated than at yesterday’s Trooping the Colour. The ...

A host of Cambridgeshire people - from charity leaders to academics - have been honoured in His Majesty The King’s Birthday ...

Historian Rutger Bregman argues in a new book that people should aspire to “moral ambition” — a mix of idealism and ruthless pragmatism — to make the world a better place.

The Shakespeare scholar Clare Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, delivered the annual Allen Hall Lecture last week and declared: 'This must be English Catholicism's moment.' Under Pope Leo, she ...

Alexander the Great's Companion cavarly were the elite mounted units of the ancient Macedonian army, entrusted to deliver devesating charges.

A Windsor school teacher is among several professionals across the East Berkshire and South Bucks area to have been named on ...

Gary Oldman, the Oscar-winning Hollywood actor who started his professional career on stage in York, has been knighted.

Sir Antony, who was raised as a Roman Catholic and whose most famous work is his gigantic Angel of the North, in Gateshead, ...

Former England cricketer Devon Malcolm has been appointed OBE for his services to the sport. The 62-year-old played at county ...

Former England captain David Beckham and actor Gary Oldman have been knighted in the King’s Birthday Honours list. Strictly ...

The highest honours have gone to Sir Antony Gormley, the sculptor behind the Angel of the North, and Professor Jocelyn Bell ...