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Within two months of arriving in New Spain, Catalina Suárez Marcaida, first wife of the conquistador Hernán Cortés, was dead. Did she meet with foul play?

After winning the biggest shooting prize in the Empire, Marjorie Foster joined the new pantheon of women making sporting headlines. On the eve of the Second World War, she had a new target in her sights: the War Office.

What happened in Britain after the Romans left? The names of those who remained – and those who arrived – may hold an answer.

One man more than any other is associated with Singapore’s remarkable success. On his centenary: who was Lee Kuan Yew and how did he do it?

As senility came to be recognised as a distinct diagnosis, methods of protecting patients – from themselves and from others – had to change. 

For the German military command, the citizens of East Prussia were not a concern; they were a weapon to be deployed in the Battle of Königsberg. 

Having prospered for more than 400 years, a medieval colony on Greenland vanished without a trace, but its memory lived on.

As promoters, propagandists, patrons and warriors, women were everywhere during the Crusades. 

The Korean peninsula was a chessboard on which the fates of great powers were decided. China, Japan and Russia learned this to their cost in the 'Other Great Game’.