Meant to live a life of perfect peacefulness and contemplation, in reality monks were human and fallible. How violent could ...

The son of iconic presenter Terry Wogan has landed a job at Virgin Radio UK following in his late father's footsteps and ...

The baron and his wife Baroness Anne show off their beautiful family home, a slice of history set in the stunning French ...

He was not only king of England, but also ruled over most of Wales, Normandy, Anjou, Gascony and other parts of France (acquired through his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine). Henry, son of ...

As with many French wine-and-spirits designations, cognac is the name of a place, and just to the south of Cognac, in Gascony, is Armagnac. There you'll find true artisans making brandies of far ...

Similar results will be produced in the southwest, where the Gascony irrigation project will increase the productivity of a large agricultural region and enable it to specialize. It must be understood ...

Bubonic plague is believed to have arrived in the country on a ship landing on the Dorset coast from Gascony in France. The disease quickly spread throughout the country. The first recorded case ...

He fought in Wales and in the Scottish campaign, and in France was lieutenant of Gascony on behalf of the King. Believing, erroneously, that Edward II was still alive and held captive (but he had ...

60% Tannat, 20% Cabernet Sauvignon and 20% Cabernet Franc from vines 20 to 100-years-old in Madiran, Gascony in the southwest ...

In the chapel of St Edmund in Westminster Abbey is the tomb of Sir Bernard Brocas (1330?-1395). His family originally came from Gascony in France, where they fought for the English cause. Brocas was a ...