Jeopardy! once again came down to the final question as five-day champion Josh Weikert returned for his sixth game. His ...

Assembled in the 1930s before being buried for 50 years, the consignor of the so-called Traveller Collection has chosen to ...

With $10,000 in his bank, he wagered $2,000. The clue read, “Henry Purcell’s opera, The Fairy Queen, isn’t based on Edmund Spenser’s poem but on this Shakespeare play.” Weikert answered ...

A collector hid his treasure from the Nazis, his widow kept it secret for decades, but now Roman aurei, Greek staters and British pounds so rare that some have never been sold at public auction have ...

Berryman came to Cambridge in 1936 with a burning desire to make change: ‘I haven’t quite got the hang of the stuff yet / but ...

The hopes and dreams of passionate advocates have a bad habit of crashing into the realities of limited means, competing priorities and opposing views. Never has that ...

Edmund Spenser was the greatest Elizabethan poet – and here ‘greatest’ means not just ‘best’ but also ‘biggest’. From 1579 he published poems which were designed to show that he was the heir of both ...