Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice Smith, the producer and audio editor is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff. All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.

Knowledge of the past is essential but comparisons between the leaders and events of different eras have their limits ...

Every time King Charles goes on tour, the same claims get wheeled out – that he travels with some very kingly things like his ...

The pope's doctor says Francis has shown ‘’a truly surprising improvement’’ since returning to the Vatican to convalesce ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

In an interview, the leader of Pope Francis’s medical team called it “a miracle” that the 88-year-old pontiff left the ...

An iconic EastEnders legend has revealed the door has been left open as their soap exit looms after more than three decades.

David Childs, the lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers ...