Playing fast and loose with history, you’ll find time-travelling American journalist Nellie Bly form a strangely loving bond with Julius Caesar in Gaul (Not Everything is Ancient History) and ...

What happened to the infant Elizabeth I following the execution of her mother Anne Boleyn?

A scene from Lost Letter ...

The wildly popular play, penned by 'Adolescence' screenwriter Jack Thorne, will now deliver the entire story in a single ...

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After a decade of performances as a two-part theatrical event, the London West End production of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will transition to a streamlined one-part format this fall. The ...

After ten years in the West End as a two-part theatrical event, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will evolve into a  single performance-format. The production will move to the version of the show ...

Henry VIII’s son Edward VI was notorious for his tragic, short-lived reign, but England’s doomed boy king has nothing on his close contemporary, King Francis II of France. From his father’s brutal ...