Noble Blood

Against the odds, Idia's son, Esigie, became the leader—Oba—of the Edo people.... more

Dr. Hugh Doherty (University of East Anglia), the historical consultant for A Knight of th... more

Born in Africa, enslaved, and brought to a foreign land, Abram Petrovich Gannibal forged a... more

Kösem Sultan was the favorite of the Sultan and the mother of a ruler. She had extrao... more

When Heinrich VI, King of Germany, called a gathering of noblemen to deal with a property ... more

Veronica Buckley, author of the new book [SEVEN SISTERS] (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.c... more

Though Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Princess Anne, competed in the Olympics, the first p... more

Elizabeth Stuart was the daughter of King James I and VI of England and Scotland. Her husb... more

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola was a brilliant and precocious philosopher, who caused a sti... more

Dana is joined by the science writer for The Economist, Matt Kaplan, to discuss 18th centu... more

Cyrano de Bergerac is a larger-than-life figure in pop culture, whose story has been adapt... more

The Florentine Diamond was one of the crown jewels (sorry) of the Habsburgs—a 137-ca... more

Antoine Lavoisier was a French chemist, who gave us the name for oxygen and other terminol... more

Natasia Minkin was the mistress of one of the cruelest men in tsarist Russia. She apparent... more

In the 17th century, aristocratic France was set on high alert—women were procuring ... more

The glamorous Mitford sisters—six daughters of a Baron—have captivated the pub... more

Though she was born in Ireland with no Spanish blood, the self-named "Lola Montez" captiva... more

While sailing from France to the New World, Marguerite de La Rocque and her lover were pun... more

One of the most glamorous members of the Kennedy clan, Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy dazzled and... more

Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary Queen of Scots, was murdered under mysterious circumstan... more

After the Battle of Culloden, the Bonnie Prince Charlie needed to escape to safety. His sa... more

As a courtesan, Veronica Franco would entertain Henry III of Valois in her Venetian home. ... more

In 1820, a group of desperate radicals came up with a violent plan for complete social and... more

On her deathbed, the unmarried "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I declared that her successor woul... more

Æthelflæd's father was Alfred the Great, King of the Anglo-Saxons, and he marr... more