Papal basilicas have traditionally been associated with a royal patron. King Felipe VI of Spain is the protocanon of the ...

The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary debuted in 1888; it was missing the word “bondmaid.” It took 50 years to include it.

As the seasons turn and the nights draw in, the countryside of the British Isles seems alive with omens: an owl's screech, or ...

The British Museum launched a fundraising campaign to keep a dazzling Tudor treasure linked to Henry VIII in public hands.

One way to cope with our confusing times is to look back at the past. Studying history does more than provide us with ...

Princess Kate's interaction with a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot while being shown a Typhoon jet went viral on social media as fans said the images were worthy of a Hollywood movie. The Princess of ...

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of ...

The Nazis seized tens of thousands of books from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, but the works are making their way back, including one being returned in New York this week. By Catherine ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Ohio Renaissance Festival will be up and running for the Labor Day weekend. It's a recreated 16th century English village with all kinds of performers, shops and great food ...

LENOX — The way Shakespeare & Company artistic director Allyn Burrows sees it, there's no reason why contemporary plays — brand new, in development or established — shouldn’t find a home at a theater ...

Daniel Di Natale was 16 when met his friend Peter Schank while working at a Buffalo toy store. Schank, then 12, used to hang around the shop. Their bond strengthened over the years when they both ...

A 16th-century document signed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés has been found decades after it was stolen from Mexico’s national archives and was repatriated to the country on Aug. 13, the ...