Ava Pickett’s award-winning début play, 1536, is a foul-mouthed, furious, frenetically funny ride through the lives of three ...

Sinister conversations in hushed tones behind gold-plated Gothic columns faintly illumined by flickering torchlight.

In 1935, Pope Pius XI canonized Sir Thomas More and Cardinal John Fisher as saints of the Catholic Church. English King Henry ...

Much of the building was destroyed - but the remaining house and foundations are still standing - and you can still see it to ...

Since before the 1200s, a UK city has sent a lamprey pie to the reigning monarch.

Originally a way to cover men’s poles in 15th and 16th century Europe, men wore codpieces beneath their doublets with no other underwear, before the ingenious sartorial invention became a piece of ...

Three years ago, when memories of the final series of HBO’s Game of Thrones were still fresh, Joanne Paul published The House ...

The inauguration mass for the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church took place in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, May 18 ...

From strange job titles that used to exist in the royal palaces to unique positions that still exist today, only the royals ...

The historian who helped unearth Richard III's remains in a Leicester car park claims to have proof that he didn't kill his ...

Pope Gregory I, known as Gregory the Great, was one of the most important popes, and his positive legacy is still felt today ...