The Battle of Tricamarum (533 AD) led to the collapse of the Vandal Kingdom. It pitted the Byzantine Empire, under its able ...
When in 955 ad a 20,000-strong force of Magyar raiders besieged the city of Augsburg, Saxon King Otto I gathered an army to ...
The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.
Life in Greece and in the Byzantine Empire as a whole is a fascinating chapter of human history that not many pay attention ...
The 100 best TV shows of all time voted by Empire fans and where to watch them tonight; Narcos · Gilmore Girls · Brooklyn ...
The turkey’s been scoffed. Christmas is over. New Year’s resolutions are freshly made and ready to be swiftly broken. We've finished deciding our movies of the year, our TV shows of the year, and even ...
Stuart Salmon is affiliated with Universities and Colleges Union (UCU). Any discussion of films and TV series about the American revolution has to start with a caveat. There have been historical ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Thus will we all be, once Death carries us away!” That is how the parvenu tycoon Trimalchio greets the pièce ...
Val Stones and Selasi Gbormittah have been crowned winners of The Great British Bake Off’s new year special. Gbormittah and Stones, who appeared on the seventh season of the baking show while it was ...
LONDON: Let’s do the maths. Start with the oil production of the United States and add Canada. Then include Venezuela and the rest of Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina and everywhere else in ...
WHILE Washington gnaws on its own obsessions — Epstein’s shadow, Trump’s visible mental erosion, MAGA’s hairline fractures, and the TACO’s soft retreat on tariffs — history has slipped the room. Power ...