Hassan slipped across to Ithaca because it was in British hands and the Turkish authorities on the Greek mainland must not know what he was going to do.

Back in the eleventh century English refugees founded New York, but it wasn’t in North America.

In Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, a man from Kent founded a glittering church for English refugees.

Heathen prince Boris I of Bulgaria (r. 852–889) commissioned St Methodius to paint an impressive scene for his palace walls.

Richard Hannay sees for himself how political activists trick decent people into supporting their quest for power.

The young Roman Emperor Theophilus backed away from marriage to the formidable Cassiani, but he could not forget her.