Reading Time: 4 minutes England’s most famous medieval king was, like his parents, more French than English
Tag: History
The Canadian who helped tame America’s Wild West
Reading Time: 4 minutes Born in Quebec, Bat Masterson set out to find adventure on America’s frontier – and he found plenty
Nixon in love
Reading Time: 4 minutes A 2015 biography by Evan Thomas gives us Nixon in the round, talented and tortured, ambitious and insecure
England’s warrior queen
Reading Time: 4 minutes Boudica’s moment of fame came as the leader of a revolt against the Romans in the years 60-61
Jimmy Carter was an accidental president
Reading Time: 4 minutes His nobility of purpose came across as preachy self-righteousness
Winston Churchill and the villainous ‘Guilty Men’
Reading Time: 4 minutes An influential book from 1940 laid the guilt of appeasing Nazi Germany at the feet of 15 public figures
Pierre Trudeau’s last rollercoaster ride
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trudeau’s fourth and final term was to be his most controversial of all
Netflix’s ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ is more fiction than fact
Reading Time: 5 minutes Show should be reclassified as “science fiction” rather than “documentary”
The tragedy of Oscar Wilde
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Anglo-Irish playwright, poet and novelist ended up imprisoned, the casualty of his own foolishness
The ignominious end of the Ottoman Empire
Reading Time: 4 minutes The last sultan, Mehmed VI, left his palace under British protection on November 17, 1922