Elizabethan adventurer Sir Francis Drake combined sailing round the world with really annoying the King of Spain.

By Divine providence, the shocking murder of Good King Wenceslas led to a flowering of Christian faith in Europe.

Scandinavian tradition says that the daughter of King Harold was consort to one the great rulers of Kievan Rus’.

Henry VII’s great-granddaughter Mary never grasped that even royalty must win the people’s respect.

One of the best-known of all battles in English history, but not because of the conflict of which it was a part.

Shortly after Askold and Dir founded Kiev in 862, they launched a brazen but ill-fated assault on the capital of the Roman Empire.