Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Max Wintle, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff. All music courtesy of ...

The front of the coin will feature Trump in profile, with his trademark 1967 Las Vegas lounge act hairstyle delineated in ...

The portrait shows a determined child with a steely gaze, holding a weaving shuttle in one hand and red thread in the other. This stern expression has long been interpreted as evidence of Marie ...

An acclaimed watercolour, painted in 1762 by Genevan painter Jean-Étienne Liotard, does not show Marie Antoinette at all, ...

One way to cope with our confusing times is to look back at the past. Studying history does more than provide us with ...

Throughout history, control over money has been one of the most powerful levers of state authority. Rulers have long understood that whoever issues and manages the currency also commands the economy ...

President Donald Trump appears poised to put his image on both sides of a commemorative $1 coin issued by the United States Mint.

The law for the 250th series refers specifically to the reverse of the coin: “No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any ...

According to The New York Times, coins must bear “designs emblematic of the United States semiquincentennial [...] The 1866 ...

One way to cope with our confusing times is to look back at the past. Studying history does more than provide us with ...

You have a spare 30 minutes during your work day. Rather than just bolting a sandwich and scrolling through your X feed, why not sit back and let a beautiful piece of classical music soothe your soul?

Meet one of the patriarchs of the famed brewing dynasty. In Netflix’s new historical drama House of Guinness, the legacy of ...