He augmented the royal treasury by seizing church lands, but his heavy spending and extended periods of mismanagement...
How, then, was Shakespeare rescued from the obscurity that followed his death, becoming the literary eminence that he...
Sophia was denied her likelihood to succeed Anne, dying two months prior to her on 28 May 1714...
Her nearest relatives have been all Catholic, and therefore unacceptable to Britain’s potent Protestant ruling class. The discovery...
There he followed the life of a buccaneer, preying on English shipping. It was in the course of...
He remained there to convalesce, even though in London Asquith tried to get the Finance Bill passed. The...
A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping more...
