In the divine words of the bard Madonna, these Viking books will “take you there”. After all, who doesn’t want to get ...

British author J. R. R. Tolkien's tale of the fall of Númenor was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis.

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Kensington takes its name from the road of the same name and is thought to have taken its name from the other Kensington in ...

The Domesday Book is a record of landholding in England from the reign of the Conqueror, surviving in its original manuscript ...

If you're stuck for what to do over the Bank Holiday why not put yourself to the test with the Daily Express's fun quiz on ...

Alfred the Great was once a poster-boy for male gallantry, but he fell out of favour in the last century. Now he is ripe for ...

To take down priests, rulers or rich merchants using the sharpest words and imagery is as Indian and as ancient as daal-bhaat — the stand-up genre has simply come and joined this as a tributary ...

The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

The British academic publisher, Routledge, has launched “Routledge Revivals” to re-issue some classic works that have been long out of print. Originally published in 1983, Barbarians and Romans is a ...

Brian De Palma's 1976 take on the book is widely viewed as one of the better King adaptations, with Sissy Spacek delivering a terrifying and tragic turn as the title character, who begins to ...