In his acknowledgments at the end of his 2013 novel An Officer and a Spy, Robert Harris thanked his wife for sharing a home over the years with “successive waves of Nazis, codebreakers, KGB men, hedge ...

One of the coins in the hoard was a gold aureus of Claudius, the very emperor who led the invasion of Britain. That connection made the find even more special. It's heavy and a beautiful coin, and has ...

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This year's theme for Black History Month is 'reclaiming narratives', and these ten movies have a lot to say about the topic.

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John Amos, who starred in the hit 1970s sitcom "Good Times" and earned an Emmy nomination for his role in the seminal 1977 ...

Oscar-winning British actor Maggie Smith, a star of stage and screen for more than seven decades, died in hospital in London ...