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The duplicitous, disloyal, callous and cruel Ferdinand Magellan.

Igor Stravinsky’s ‘shockingly contemporary’ The Rite of Spring ​​​​premiered on 29 May 1913.

There are several obstacles between Tudor women and their biographers. Bypassing them is a slow but necessary process. 

As the Nazis enclosed Warsaw’s Jewish quarter in a ghetto, a librarian set up a secret children’s library. 

The age of Shakespeare, and its changing notions of what was funny, gave birth to modern comedy. 

The undeniable power of the Gododdin, written by the sixth-century north-British poet Aneirin.

Anne of Kyiv married Henry I, king of the Franks, on 19 May 1051.

Years of armed resistance by four interlinked Zionist militia groups helped end British rule in Palestine, but led to a bitter civil war between Jews and Arabs.

A great historian and public intellectual, Thomas Fuller championed moderation and responsibility in a time of war, polarisation and misinformation.