In the summer of 1488, King James III of Scotland was fleeing a battlefield. His army had collapsed at the battle of Sauchieburn, and his teenage son, the future James IV, had joined the rebel nobles ...

You’re living in medieval England and just celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ at Easter. The sun is getting warmer, and the fields are getting greener. So, that must mean it’s time for ...

In the summer of 1607, a man named Anthony Fernseed was found dead in a field – his throat slit. Yet when his wife, Margaret, was informed of his death, she barely seemed bothered at all. “She [was] ...

When Germany’s surrender was declared on 8 May 1945, the news came as a surprise to many of the staff working at Bletchley Park. Although they knew the end of the European war was near, few predicted ...

John F Kennedy holds a prestigious position in the American imagination – a man of wartime heroism, soaring rhetoric and youthful charm who embodied postwar optimism. It’s an image made even more ...