A Nuclear Game tracks the spies operating behind the scenes in the Reagan era, Jonathan Wright takes a closer look at the ...

When, why and how did Neanderthals die out? This pivotal moment in human evolution is still contested by archaeologists, and ...

Of all the men found guilty of treason and adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn, Mark Smeaton, ascending the scaffold and placing ...

A love story between two prisoners at the worst of the Nazis’ concentration camps? The plot of the Tattooist of Auschwitz ...

But it was his mystery novels set in Tudor England and featuring barrister Shardlake for which he was best known – and loved. A succession of seismic events, such as Henry’s rapid succession of wives, ...

In the early 1980s, Oleg Gordievsky was arguably the most important spy in the world. This was not primarily because of his work for what was ostensibly his employer, the KGB, but because he was a ...

As well as being a printer, publisher, philosopher, inventor and Founding Father of America, Benjamin Franklin also found time to become a French fashion icon – and almost became a swimming teacher ...

Ask a group of people today what the 18th-century polymath Benjamin Franklin should be remembered for the most, and chances are that a variety of answers will come up. Was he primarily a man of words, ...

He is also, to use the derogatory parlance employed by other characters in those novels, a ‘crookback’. In the Disney+ adaptation Shardlake, streaming from 1 May, our hero (played by Arthur Hughes, ...