Ballgowns are being stitched, bonnets brushed and tea rooms prepped as the United Kingdom prepares to celebrate the 250th birthday of beloved literary icon Jane Austen. Quite how the author, born ...

Mark Pougatch has been helping us to navigate the Six Nations tournament with his key insights and expert commentary. Although we've been used to the star on the pitch, away from the sport he has ...

French-speaking, he was steeped in the Burgundian tradition of the wealthy states of his father, Philip the Handsome, Duke of Burgundy, whose inheritance he received in 1506—Belgium, Artois, ...

The Transylvanian Trilogy, written by her father Count Miklós Bánffy, is a warts-and-all portrait of the decline of the Hungarian nobility in the period preceding the Great War. The three novels ...

LONDON (AP) — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian ...

The administration’s brash, faux-libertarianism targeting of federal aid and oversight assumes the big tech CEOs can navigate our collective wellbeing better, akin to the nobility under a feudal ...