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My Lady Jane: The brutal truth about the UK's infamous...
A short-lived teenage monarch in Tudor history has now inspired a fantastical TV...
The US city throwing an epic party for Prince
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Purple Rain, Prince's hometown is rolling...
Chinatown: The real-life California scandal that inspired...
Now 50 years old, Chinatown is one of the all-time great crime films – and that's...
Listening to unheard Wu-Tang Clan - the world's rarest...
Inside a delicately hand-carved silver box on display in an Australian museum lies...
'I went spectacularly broke': The blacklisted Hollywood...
On 22 June 1950, the notorious Red Channels pamphlet was published, implicating...
Historic writer's desk could be 'knackered' old fake
The desk of the writer Dr Samuel Johnson is to be returned to his former London...
Naked, alone and living on dog food – all for a TV show...
In 1998, a Japanese man was stripped naked and left alone in an almost-empty apartment...
Oldest Christian book sells for more than £3m
Christianity's oldest religious book, according to auction house Christie's, has...
Explorer Shackleton's last ship found on ocean floor
Wreck hunters have found the ship on which the famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton...
'It was the cleverest escape in the prison's 30 years':...
On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from Alcatraz, never to be seen again. The ultimate...
'A woman should cast off her shame together with her clothes':...
A new book tells the history of the ancient world through women. Here author Daisy...
1984: How did the Isle of Jura help shape Orwell's masterpiece?
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published 75 years ago on Saturday.
'I thought, my God, they're ready for us. They know we've...
Eighty years ago on 6 June, D-Day, the largest land, air and naval operation in...
Ben Franklin: The US Founding Father who travelled the...
Thanks to a new series starring Michael Douglas, Franklin is enjoying a renaissance....
Mama Cass 'didn't choke to death on a ham sandwich', daughter...
This is an attempt to right a rock wrong. One of the most famous musical myths is...