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An international team of codebreakers said Wednesday they have found and deciphered the long lost secret letters of 16th-century monarch Mary, Queen of Scots, one of the most argued-over figures in British history. The long-rumored missing letters, which were found mislabeled in the digital archive of a French library, were…

Experts said the codebreakers’ work is the most significant discovery about Mary for 100 years

Experts say codebreakers’ discovery is most significant about royal for more than a century

The letters date from 1578 to 1584, a few years before Mary’s beheading 436 years ago.

A new exhibition brings together portraits of weird children and nobility by an artist with an eye for human uniqueness. It also reveals their true identity …

More than 230 of the world’s wealthiest people, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, have promised to give at least half of their fortunes to charity within their lifetimes or in their wills by signing the Giving Pledge. Some of the most affluent, including Jeff Bezos – who…

Other items on sale from the same collection are two paintings by the renowned Victorian artist Thomas Sidney Cooper

The Geneva Bible is expected to fetch between £5,000 and £10,000 at auction next week.

Colonialism began with the search for spices. I know because it changed my family’s life, says podcaster Anna Sulan Masing

The sensational Freddie De Tommaso soars alongside Natalya Romaniw in a catch-it-while-you-can Tosca

English National Opera’s one-off performance of Britten’s uneven opera was very fine in every respect, with Christine Rice an exceptional Elizabeth I