Hundreds of people visited Hedingham Castle across the Easter bank holiday weekend for the historic site's first jousting event of the year.

The rack became one of the most infamous instruments of torture in medieval Europe, used to extract confessions in cases of ...

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The medieval-themed Philadelphia punk band embraces cleaner production, catchier melodies, and wider-ranging influences to ...

Simon Hanes, a leading musician in New York’s downtown scene, has recorded his “Gargantua,” a work for 15 musicians that nods to volcanoes, Rabelais and Dante.

An analysis of samples taken from the Shroud of Turin, the cloth thought by some to have been wrapped around Jesus, reveals a ...

President Trump and Iran sent mixed messages ahead of his Tuesday deadline. Early Tuesday, Israel said it had detected ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Recent decades have seen the world blunder through financial crisis, pandemic and war. Fringe merchants of ...

A master craftsman will attempt to replicate the techniques used by monks to create "The Book of Kells" some 1200-years-ago.

Bassist-Composer’s Debut Features Seven Smart, Fresh Originals in a Quintet with Guitarist Caleb Heinze, Saxophonist/Flutist ...

I READ this compelling book Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson during the Holy Week, and they explain the concept of a “critical juncture.” A critical juncture is a major event or ...

The audience took their seats in The Englert Theatre, awaiting a night of music from Tortoise, a Chicago-based band. The five ...