Empress Matilda was one of the claimants to the English throne during ... spoke about his latest creation to get the HBO treatment. It’s called “House of the Dragon,” and it began airing ...

Today, the image of the country house as a historic building commands the popular imagination, not least as a consequence of the filming of so much historic drama in these buildings. Nevertheless, ...

This subplot to the creation of the dictionary became a book in its own right – Simon Winchester's The Surgeon of Crowthorne. The first 'fascicle' of what would become the Oxford English ...