A blue plaque on the wall of the former home of Dame Rosemary Jean Cramp was unveiled in Durham on October last year.

A blue plaque on the wall of the former home of Dame Rosemary Jean Cramp was unveiled in Durham on October last year.

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th century.

The coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England by Mayr-Harting, Henry Publication date 1991 Topics Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500, Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, England -- Church history -- ...

Making of an empire As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...

Roman Britain, once the proud jewel of the Roman Empire, was a land filled with grandeur, thriving cities, and remarkable infrastructure. By the third century, Britain was home to bustling urban ...

President Donald Trump lashed out at Rupert Murdoch’s conservative media empire in a Thursday morning Truth Social tirade that saw him declare that “MAGA HATES FoxNews.” “The Crooked ...

Leonard Lauder, former head of Estée Lauder Companies, dies at 92. His legacy includes transforming the beauty industry and philanthropic contributions.

Mitzi Perdue, the double-heiress of Sheraton Hotels and Perdue Farms, grew up wearing hand-me-downs and getting a public education. She’s quick to draw her purse strings by flying economy ...