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Author George R R Martin has made no secret of the real-life medieval inspiration for House of the Dragon.

In three decades of teaching medieval European history, I’ve noticed my students are especially curious about the intersection of the stories told in class and the depictions of the Middle Ages they see in movies and television.

Only two days separate Anzac Day and Shakespeare’s (presumed) birthday and actual death-day. This proximity is coincidental. But amid a war in Ukraine, being reported in horrifyingly graphic detail from the point of view of the victims, and given Shakespeare is the world’s most-quoted, most-performed and most studied writer, it…

He wasn't English, never visited England and wasn't even the country's first patron saint, so who was St George? We reveal all

Biographer Stephen Galloway’s purple prose does its best to give a romantic sheen to a famously troubled relationship

The last 75 years of peace (mostly) in Europe are an illusion: Historically, it's the heartland of global conflict

Kit Harington’s a natural as Shakespeare’s military monarch, while Alecky Blythe’s long-awaited new verbatim play captures five years of teenage introspection

The Game of Thrones star impresses in an uneven production balancing boardroom and battlefield

As the Game of Thrones star swaps furs for modern dress to play Shakespeare’s monarch, he reflects on what the play tells us about masculinity, and how it addresses the issues that drove his struggle with addiction