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Odysseus and his companions are trapped in the Cyclops’ cave. But he is a man with a plan...

Achilles is furious that his war prize - his enslaved concubine, Briseis - is taken from him

After years of war between the gods, a truce is sealed through an exchange of hostages. 

Italian female composers broadened their horizons as the courts of Europe beckoned with opportunity…

With the 1848 revolutions challenging the monarchy, the romantics' convictions are also tested.

In the 17th century the nobility and the clergy had a great interest in depriving the peasants of an education.

Behind convent walls, female baroque composers wrote their own chapter of music history.

Whilst male composers such as Monteverdi and Vivaldi were celebrated, women composers struggled for recognition or even the right to play an instrument at all.

In 1955, at the height of her fame, Marilyn Monroe starts her own production company in New York.

From zero to millionaire: how social media is reshaping the myth of entrepreneurial wealth...

The myth of Monaco: from a remote fishing village to one of the richest countries in the world.

The whole communist world celebrates Stalin’s 70th birthday in December 1949 including the ‘brother nations’ of eastern Europe. 

While the Red Army was advancing towards Berlin in 1944, Stalin was already planning to incorporate Eastern Europe into his sphere of influence.

In 1960, Yves Klein was photographed jumping from the second floor of a building

After the revolutions of 1848, one million Germans emigrated to the USA, but came under suspicion during the First World War

In 1947 Fox does not renew Marilyn's contract., but the young actress is determined to succeed.

From her chaotic childhood to her arrival in Hollywood, the rise of an icon of cinema: Marilyn Monroe.

In 1956 a miracle saves the finances of the micro-state: the glamourous American star Grace Kelly.

How China revolutionised trade with bronze coins and paper money centuries before the West.