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In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

It seems like we are in for a titanic battle in the elite men’s road race, and history could be made

The actor answers your questions on Peter O’Toole, the new version of Caligula, growing up in Liverpool – and having his eyeballs scraped

From our special correspondent - The sporting competitions at the Paris Olympic Games are being staged at some of France’s most emblematic locations: the Palace of Versailles, the former bastion of the French monarchy; the final resting place of Napoleon at Les Invalides; that most Parisian of monuments, the Eiffel…

The quirky sea fort, one of around a hundred across England, neighbours award-winning ‘Tower Y’ which sold for well over a million

Letter: Neither the second world war nor the Battle of Waterloo were won solely by the British, writes Dr Peter Purton, and repeating historical myths feeds false ideas of exceptionalism

Here are three period dramas to take you back in time while you wait to start streaming My Lady Jane on Prime Video next week.

Ridley Scott transforms French farmhouses into holiday lets, the latest addition to the filmmaker’s Provençal wine estate, Mas des Infermières

Christie’s says piece, stolen from Longleat estate in 1995 and found in a plastic bag seven years later, expected to fetch upto £25m