On 12th August in the year 1530, the anti-Medici rebels surrendered the Italian city of Florence to the Imperial army of Emperor Charles...

On the 7th of June, 1520 in a green valley called the Val Dore not far from English Calais, two great kings galloped across a grassy...

On this day in 1526 King Francois I of France formed the ‘Holy’ League of Cognac with Pope Clement VII, and the Italian powers Milan,...

We’ve all seen a cavalcade of black SVU’s escorted by police riding steeds of steel through our streets and known that tucked inside is a...

Jeu de Paume was the precursor to tennis and was such a craze in the 16th century that every royal palace had at least one court and...

Some 24 hours after taking off in Melbourne on a Qantas jet I have touched down across the other side of the world in New York for the...

As Christmas carols blast at shoppers in swarming shopping centres and every conceivable surface is draped in tinsel and baubles I...

The festive season is upon us – lots of feasting, music (albeit tinny Christmas carols) and celebration. All that’s missing is the odd...

By the heated glow of a bonfire, serenaded by a triangulation of owls and a chorus of frogs, my husband poured me a glass of a wine he...

It's charming - a walk through the forest from the train station, through the iron gates of the walls that surround the grounds and you...