There have been 40 monarchs of England/Britain in the 10 centuries since a bastard French-Norman duke crossed the channel in 1066 to conquer and all that. You can count the good kings — that is, ...

Seward, who has written on the Tudors and the Hundred Years’ War, gives a whirlwind overview of the Plantagenet kings, from Henry II through Richard III (1154–1485). The book focuses on men, battles, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Late in 1306 King Edward I of England, old Longshanks, was heading for Scotland. He wanted one last shot at ...

There was some closure this year for the Plantagenets — who ruled and shaped England for three centuries — when the last of their line was confirmed to have been found, at long last, buried under a ...

We are all determined to learn lessons from the pandemic. For many of us, it has brought the realisation that we take too much for granted. In 2020, as we hunkered down for the first lockdown, the ...

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." This quote - often attributed to Gandhi but more likely to have come from a 1914 report to the Amalgamated Clothing ...