Prime Minister Lord Salisbury resigns and is replaced by his nephew, Balfour, who this year introduces the Education Act, which controversially hands control of secondary education from school boards ...

In Los Angeles, he wrote two scripts, but the studio was not satisfied and then Paramount offered Eisenstein to work on the ...

Every 5 November we remember the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 – a thwarted act of terror in which a cabal of Catholic conspirators ...

Emily Mann has written 4 shows including Still Life (Playwright), Execution of Justice (Playwright), Having Our Say (Playwright), Annulla (Playwright). What awards has Emily Mann been nominated for?

Guy Fawkes Night remains well observed in pockets of Britain. In Ottery St Mary, Devon, locals carry flaming barrels of tar ...

The A9 pledge was a good vote-catcher and I think ministers genuinely believed that, by now, they would have secured independence (aided by ...

Fresh & Incalculable. Author Mattingly, professor of European history at Columbia University, begins his account with the execution of Mary Stuart, Roman Catholic Queen of Scotland, in February 1587.

Stuart monarchs were repeatedly challenged by dangerous threats – a gunpowder plot, a civil war and political revolution. As ...

Margaret Pole, played by Harriet Walter, is countess of Salisbury and niece of Kings Edward IV and Richard III. She is ...

A federal judge granted Idaho serial killer Thomas Creech a stay of execution just one week before he was scheduled to be put to death, months after he survived a botched execution. Creech ...

New details have emerged about Iran’s rare execution this week of a member of its tiny Jewish minority. VOA has learned that Arvin Ghahremani, the first Jewish person executed by the Islamic ...