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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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 ...

Anyone who strayed into the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly around an area known as Troublesome Creek, might have come across a close-knit ...

The eldest son of Edmund I, and great-grandson to Alfred the Great, Eadwig became king of England from late 955. He likely would have been around 15 years of age – and according to accounts, his rule ...

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 ...

When did Maria Theresa come to power? Ascending the Habsburg throne in 1740, at 23 years old, Maria Theresa assumed rule at a perilous moment for her empire. The state’s coffers were empty and its ...

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 ...