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Today, more women than men are entering medical school and pursuing a career in medicine. Who were some of the pioneering women physicians, and what challenges do contemporary women in medicine face?

George was born in 1449, and by 1459, violence had escalated between his father’s supporters and those of the reigning king ... IV, the Lancastrian claimant united the two factions as Henry ...

The Tywi Valley town of Llandovery - gateway to the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) and the Cambrian Mountains - is one ...

In March 1771,12-year-old Horatio Nelson received a letter from his uncle, Captain Maurice Suckling RN, directing him to report to his ship, ...

If the committee-approved memorial of Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park is to be imaginative, well realised and uplifting ...

Research by the charity English Heritage suggests it may have found a portrait of England's shortest-reigning queen Lady Jane ...

Brad Sigmon was executed to exhibit the power of the state over its citizens. By choosing to be put to death by firing squad, ...

Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles ...

In 41 BC, Cleopatra hosted a dinner to celebrate the Roman leader Mark Antony, who was a well-known party animal. Twelve ...

The first of Shakespeare's Henriad plays, Richard II sees the unlikeable and corrupt king be usurped by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke who goes on to become Henry IV. Directed by Nicholas Hytner ...