Fixing up a modern building can feel like a daunting enough prospect - but how do you set about restoring a crumbling ...

In 1531, King Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church in England by the Convocation of Canterbury. In 1618, German astronomer Johannes Kepler devised his third law of planetary ...

A Hollywood beauty whose celebrated roles included Anne Boleyn, Merle Oberon kept her South Asian origins a secret from the movie industry and audiences.

The historic Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is experiencing a “dramatic surge” in building collapses linked to coastal erosion and rising levels of the ...

The Wiltshire home, once owned by King Henry VIII, features six bedrooms, four reception rooms and three bathrooms. There is also a playroom, a cloakroom, a basement cellar and a cosy upstairs ...

He was the first Tudor monarch, the king who vanquished Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. So when Henry VII died in 1509 after suffering from gout and asthma, he was fittingly buried in ...

CHEN DONGDONG/FOR CHINA DAILY Tourism authorities in several provincial-level regions have vied to promote their areas as the "real birthplace" of the Ne Zha character, hoping to ride the wave of ...

Henry VII died on April 21, 1509 after suffering from gout and asthma. He was born in Pembroke Castle in 1457 and was raised by his mother and uncle, with his father dying before his birth.

Customers have been left devastated as one of Britain's oldest pubs has called time for good after serving customers for 570 years. The Abbot's Fireside in Elham, near Canterbury, Kent, has ...