A six-bedroom mansion in the upmarket London neighbourhood of Mayfair where exiled French emperor Napoleon III was entertained in the mid 19th century is up for sale. The grand five-storey Georgian ...

Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

In 2014, the terrorist militia known as the "Islamic State" (IS) began destroying memorials, monuments, churches and even mosques in conquered areas in Iraq and Syria. This area, the heart of former ...

There are three main routes to consider: the Red City Route takes you around the city centre and Camps Bay; the Blue Mini ...

Discover the 10th century tunnels that housed Allied troops, a Vauban citadel and a famous sausage. A perfect half-term ...

Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini poses during a photocall for the world premiere of the film Napoleon, in Paris on November ... two weeks after his grandfather the Aga Khan III unexpectedly made him ...

With access to a unique archive of personal letters, this documentary brings the love story of Napoleon to life. The unpublished love letters Napoleon wrote to Josephine shed new light on Napoleon ...

Is it possible to see into the future Many believe that a man named Michel de Nostradamus could His predictions of the future have mystified scholars for over four hundred years Nostradamus made over ...

The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...

A Tunisian man is on trial in France on terrorism charges over the killing of three people in a basilica in the French Riviera city of Nice in 2020 ...

Richard III has long stood accused of murdering his nephews in 1483, but some experts doubt it. A new piece of evidence has them as divided as ever. The uncrowned King Edward V and his younger ...