A communion cup belonging to Mary Queen of Scots has "returned home". The cup, known as the Luck of Workington, had been ...

Historian Gareth Russell has written Queen James, a biography of King James VI and I - the last king of Scotland - who moved to London ...

Thea Musgrave’s rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots makes its London and English National Opera (ENO) premiere in February ...

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...

Being asked to review a Horrible Histories book has opened the floodgates of nostalgia. Childhood memories have come flooding ...

Eventually in 1603 Elizabeth died and James was offered the throne. The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland. Although promising to return to ...

This was a conspiracy between English Catholics and continental powers to overthrow Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Queen ...

Queen Elizabeth I’s reign was defined by power ... and first fell for Lord Robert Dudley. The bond between the childhood friends blossomed into something more, and she made him Master of ...

Queen Mary of Denmark looked typically chic as she attended a farewell reception at the official residence of the Danish royal family in Copenhagen wearing a blush pink blouse on Thursday.

This is the remarkable biography of a noble Scots Pine tree ... five centuries ago – and where it greeted a young Mary, Queen of Scots, who was then just a child herself. It becomes the heart ...

Modern global regulatory bodies should draw upon the repertoire of strategies used by their 1930s predecessors to survive today’s threats.

On 2 November 1921, James Joyce wrote from Paris to his aunt Josephine in Dublin asking if it was ‘possible for an ordinary person to climb over the area railings of No. 7 Eccles Street, either from ...