The FX series Shogun brings samurai, politics, and intrigue to life - but how much of it is true to history? In this Kings ...

The 17th century was marked by near-constant war, rebellion, and social collapse across much of the world. But what caused this wave of crises to erupt nearly everywhere at once? In this documentary, ...

It was a drizzly Tuesday evening in the 17th-century Oxford village pub I manage, the kind of night when regulars huddle ...

Here are five recent headlines putting Black art in the spotlight, from 17th-century sitters to masters of Nigerian Modernism ...

Of the Brideshead Revisited manse, designer Remy Renzullo says “the notion of ‘finished’ doesn’t really exist” ...

The Swiss art fair giant's French expo continues to grow, with more than 200 exhibitors signed on for October. The Venice ...

Surprisingly, the history of statistics doesn’t go back very far. In the 17th century, British demographer John Graunt ...

Increased interest in the history of witchcraft and witch-hunts is connected to rising political intolerance and polarisation ...

Human use of fire could partly explain why white-tailed deer may have been resilient to hunting. Indigenous peoples across North America have long used controlled burning to promo ...

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare's "King Lear" with a bold staging in Tehran infused with ...

An eyebrow-raising interaction between up-and-coming country superstars Shaboozey and Megan Moroney is raising new questions ...

The Ten Plagues are reinterpreted through a contemporary lens, merging Biblical themes, personal experience, and symbolic ...