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

From muscle-bound castles to lavish manor houses, the world is filled with fine stately homes – and many of them happen to be ...

Wentworth Woodhouse is the largest private residence in England but it was left to descend into ruin. Now, it's undergoing a ...

“We kill the tyrants or die trying to, for we are many and they are few,” proclaims a mayor pushed to his limits in a new adaptation from Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga of the classic 17th-century ...

Norfolk has the largest concentration of medieval churches in the world. Almost 1000 were built, and today an incredible 639 ...

Commemoration of William Christie’s eighth decade began last year with grand stagings in Paris of Charpentier’s ‘Médée’ and ...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life ...

The principle had been established in English law in the early 17th century by a ruling that anyone born in a place subject to the king of England was a “natural-born subject of England.” ...

“Spectacular” treasures awarded to an Orcadian naval officer for his actions during an 18th century ... monarch Queen Anne for his actions in the Archduke’s home city, and a portrait of ...

Tucked away in the picturesque Essex countryside lies a charming village that seems straight out of a fairytale. Nestled between Colchester and Cambridge, Castle Hedingham, named after its 900 ...