The biggest blockbuster hit of the Elizabethan theatre was not by William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe or Ben Jonson.

This is Alice B. Toklas, ventriloquised by her partner, Gertrude Stein: Defiantly, flagrantly clairvoyant. Daring us to ...

Cela me revolte,’ wrote Queen Victoria in her diary in 1894 when her adored granddaughter Alexandra of Hesse announced her ...

I don’t approve of ghosts, from the sublime (I generally just mouth the words ‘Holy Ghost’ in church, as I don’t want to ...

I thought we might be on to a winner with this book after the opening sentence. ‘From an early age,’ Simon Mayall writes, ‘I ...

Many reviewers start work with a peek at the book’s index. Here you find Gladys Goose Lamp, Choo Choo Chain and Dynamite ...

Every Christmas the proportion of money we spend online escalates. This year probably more than a third of all our festive ...

There’s a big difference between being a fan and being a super-fan. Not all fans would be able to differentiate between the ...

Lily Phillips, who had sex with 101 men in a single day in October, has hit the headlines, but the focus should instead be on ...

Saudi Arabia has been confirmed as the host country for the 2034 World Cup tournament. It has been an open secret for some ...

The talented military historian Max Boot has published a well-researched life of Ronald Reagan that is fundamentally wrong.

Kimberly Guilfoyle has landed the break-up gift of a lifetime, finding herself appointed Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece ...