The Baron of Retz and veteran of the Hundred Years’ War confessed to monstrous crimes of torturing and murdering children.

In the West, he is most often depicted as the antagonist – if a noble and revered one – to the crusader king, Richard the ...

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A notorious tale of royal scandal claims King Eadwig abandoned his own coronation feast for a ménage à trois. But did it ...

Steven Knight doesn’t mess around with the subject matter for his gritty, historical British crime dramas. Like Peaky Blinders before it, new Disney+ drama A Thousand Blows catapults viewers head on ...

Upon its release in 2018, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was widely seen as setting a new standard for historical accuracy in videogames, with its painstaking efforts to bring the brutal and beautiful ...

But there is another compelling ‘what if’ question that very nearly became reality. How might history have looked if JFK hadn’t been president at all? Years before his death, before he even took ...

In medieval and early modern Europe, the education of a young royal was an important business. If they weren’t already sitting on the throne and having to quickly learn the ropes, they had to be ...

Redneck is a divisive term in the United States. Today it is often viewed as a slur, to refer to a working-class, uneducated, white American from the rural South or Appalachian region. To many, it ...

Did Catherine the Great really have sex with a horse? No, Catherine the Great did not meet an outrageously lurid death during an attempt at bestiality. No, she had not rigged up a harness-and-pulley ...