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The question of who owns Greenland rings throughout history, arguably beginning in the Viking Age. But since the Second World ...

By shooting an apple off his son’s head, William Tell inspired both the Swiss people to fight for independence and a ...

When it comes to popes, the current split between men and women is 266 to zero. But, as Jonny Wilkes explores, that hasn’t ...

Following the death of the former US president in December, historian Mark White recalls the life and work of a leader whose ...

Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and ...

Poisoned sweets. Criminal misdeeds. And a sex scandal involving… the prime-minister.