An exquisite work of art in the form of a rare Fabergé cigarette case, has been gifted to The Wildlife Trusts as part of a ...
Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the publication, on Christmas Day, of a treaty between himself and the crowned ...
This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...
American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching ...
The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...
The regal tradition of scratching signatures in windowpanes is long established and well known. The windows – particularly when in rooms of royal residences – formed a kind of living ‘guestbook’, ...
In 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On this date, the novel ...
The Jews of Persia celebrated their narrow escape from annihilation at the hands of Haman’s antisemitic mobs, thanks to the ...
A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...
On March 13, 1881, revolutionaries assassinated Russian Tsar Alexander II. The terrorist organization Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) hoped to spark a revolution by assassinating the monarch. Instead, ...
Queen Camilla opted for a sentimental brooch as she attended the Commonwealth Day Reception at Marlborough House. The royal was beaming as she joined King Charles to meet with guests for the annual ...
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