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Have you ever wondered what it would look like if Charles Darwin rode Napoleon's horse into battle against a dragon and its army of video game characters? Well, you could spend years - even decades - on artistic and design training to create the tableau yourself … or you could…

These are the movies we see as potential contenders for Best Picture at next year's Academy Awards.

A new study claims to have proved that the Napoleon complex is real – but it misses the bigger picture, says feature writer Simon Usborne

Guest speaker Roy Johnstone had been a solicitor for some 40 years with a great love of history

Catacanthus incarnatus, which feasts on crops including cotton and corn, has been renamed Hitler as the design on its back resembles the Nazi dictator's face

French sugarbeet farmers disrupted Paris traffic with hundreds of tractors

Hundreds of farmers have driven their tractors to Paris to amplify their demand to be allowed to use banned pesticides on sugar beets to help ensure “food sovereignty” for France

The historic building has had a long life in the city centre

'Hikers and old people' have traditionally visited St Helena, but the island's first airport is opening it up to a new type of traveller

MIKE Watson travelled to Sweden with American singer Larry Finnegan in 1964. He never left – and the move turned out to be one of the best…

A n emblematic example of feminine-oriented watchmaking, the Reine de Naples collection draws inspiration from the first-ever Brequet wristwatch, delivered in 1812 to Napoleon’s sister, Queen Caroline. Whether gem set, engraved or lacquered, each model is thus an ode to femininity.