How did the Holy Roman Empire come into being? This video traces its origins from the fall of the Western Roman Empire through the rise of Charlemagne and the crowning of Otto I in 962. We explore how ...

The world of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is a dangerous one of politics, passions, and precarious alliances. And to fully appreciate the nuanced power plays that Thomas Cromwell must navigate ...

The Holy Roman Empire, it was famously put (by Voltaire, I think), was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Likewise, the First Amendment "actual malice" test isn't actually about malice, but ...

Yet the term 'Holy Roman Empire' did not enter common use until the 13th Century with the reign of Frederick Barbarossa. In this video, we explore why this was the case, delving into the Empire's long ...