The star of Loki and The Night Manager hosts a retelling of the destruction of Pompeii – one that manages to make one of the ...

He has sailed to Troy with the coalition of Greek rulers determined to recover Helen, wife of Menelaus, after she was taken by the Trojan prince Paris. He has fought in a war that lasted ten years.

“One can hardly imagine a human being in a more degraded and brutalised condition than that in which I found this female.” The woman, Anna Stone, had been found naked, filthy and chained with several ...

When love is unrequited, what you can you do? For some people throughout history, a love potion has been the answer – but just what goes into these heady (and allegedly head-turning) draughts? Below ...