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After the King and his Roundheads were defeated in 1645, he was imprisoned by Cromwell, put on trial and later beheaded outside Banqueting House in London 377 years ago today on January 30, 1649. It ...

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As Carlisle Cathedral's East Window is named England's favourite piece of stained-glass art, we explore the history and ...

Hamnet, which just opened in theaters around Israel, is a movie about William Shakespeare’s family that really wants to be about something else.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been pictured looking troubled as he journeyed on his horse across Windsor Great Park. The ...

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Oscar-tipped Hamnet was shot at various UK locations in 2024 including the historic Charterhouse in Clerkenwell which doubled as ...

I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me – now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive ...