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As previously revealed, Natalie Dormer will star in the new version of Tolstoy’s classic. According to the venue, it is set ...

163 years ago today, a great milestone; below, historian Peter Manning writes about the first-ever reported football match of the Crystal Palace Club... It is 2.30pm on the afternoon of Saturday, 15th ...

The truth is though that the tycoons of the 20th century were far less impressive than their 19th century predecessors who exceeded them in wealth, wit and spirit. Here are the greatest, most ...

The history of wallpaper is not simply a history of ornamental patterns and designs. It is also a fascinating record of technological ingenuity and changes in patterns of consumption and domestic ...

We seldom come across a place that has acted as the capital of not one, not two, but three crucial territories simultaneously. Yet, there was a time when the Himalayan hill station of ‘Simla ...