When Kathrine is kidnapped, the police quickly arrest a suspect. But when it becomes clear that they’ve got the wrong man, Felix Jørgensen goes after a gynecologist with a...

Are you looking to the wrong people for inspiration online? A slower and more honest approach to life is offering a sense of candour and comradery, says Caroline Rowland.

They set off to discover the unknown, to find a route across one of the most extreme continents on Earth, to carve out a path to glory. But all Burke and Wills found was tragedy,...

From within the walls of Ancient Athens came a revolutionary new form of governance, but not everyone agreed that it was right one

Lottie Goldfinch examines the life and legacy of one of the most talented and enigmatic artists in history, whose obsessions included sculpture, engineering and anatomy

Heists, robberies and stick-ups – Pat Kinsella tells the thrilling story of the notorious outlaws, for whom the Wild West was only the beginning…

The extraordinary take of English explorer, writer, cartographer, archaeologist, diplomat, linguist and spy, Gertrude Bell

Reveals the colourful life of the cantankerous man who invented calculus and the laws of motion

On 23 June 1914, the famed military general leads his Division of the North in one of the bloodiest battles of the Mexican Revolution

A pivotal victory in the Scottish fight for independence from English rule, the Battle of Bannockburn was a classic case of wit over superior numbers and weaponry, says Julian...