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During the fifteenth century England was split in a bloody conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster over who should claim the crown. The c...

For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unw...

From 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III. She impressed the Prussian...

Today, one of the modern Israeli Army's mottoes is 'Masada shall not fall again'; Masada has become an iconic event of Jewish-Roman history. Joseph...

'The city will no longer be a place of flowers, but an abode of robbery, of evil doing, of bloodshed.' This is the dramatic story of Girolamo Savon...

"An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia" is the story of the heel of Italy - Puglia - as told by past and present day travellers. It has beautif...

In recent years, tourists have discovered the rustic charms of Puglia, also known as Apulia, the heel stretching down from the spur of the Italian ...

A brilliant new interpretation of one of the most dramatic periods of British history.The Wars of the Roses didn't end at the Battle of Bosworth in...

Many Italian cities look back with pride to the days when they were independent republics: Naples, on the contrary, remembers its days as a royal c...