Magdalen King-Hall, who was living in Portaferry, Co Down at the time, was the secret hand behind a best-selling sensation.

A significant painting in British history is on show at a Bradford gallery – the first stop of a tour that will end with the ...

Portrayed by the incredibly talented Tom Felton, Draco was the perfect foil to the boy wizard, with his disdain for Potter ...

But perhaps most intriguing to Tatler is the extensive collection of Thomas Gainsborough's portraits of 18th-century British aristocrats. In the drawing room off the Garden Court hangs a painting of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Written and created by Debbie Horsfield, the hit British television series Poldark is a historical drama based on the eponymous novel series penned by Winston Graham. The show initially aired on ...

The ring has recently been declared treasure at Norfolk Coroner's Court and will now be taken to the British Museum, where it will be valued. Describing the moment he found the 18th-century ring, Mr ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

We’re talking about the 18th annual Indiana Fallen Officer Blood Drive. This annual event, held in cooperation with the South Bend Medical Foundation, is a staple for the South Bend community ...

Reader discretion is advised. Researchers have uncovered the reason an "unusual" 18th-century mummy was preserved so well in Austria – and it's highly abnormal. A study about the mummy was ...

Decay cultivated a taste for the picturesque, and 18th-century British travellers, who could not afford foreign journeys, still experienced a comparable sense of nostalgia by moonlight visits to ...

This is the second part of a series in which we examine history from a different angle. The business card has been in its ...