History

News She is one of the most famous Queens in history, but the story of the demise of Mary Queen of Scots is more horrendous than you think.

Offbeat On Valentine’s Day, romance reigns supreme. But how did a martyr’s decapitation and festival of bloodshed become a global celebration of love?

Education On this day more than 2000 years ago, one of the most powerful men in the world was brutally beheaded in a macabre public display.

Music Woodford Folk Festival fans will soon be able to experience the event’s magic minus the dust with big changes to the iconic site.

People and Places For thousands of years, these tribes have lived bountiful lives on their remote islands and highland valleys. But genocide has decimated their numbers.

Offbeat THE world’s first computer — the 2200-year-old Antikythera Mechanism — holds such fascination that when someone cries ‘wolf’, everybody sits up and listens.