In short, there is no credible evidence that 18th-century gambling dens employed dice swallowers to avoid police detection.

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carla Gardina Pestana, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION ...

The Sherman Theatre in Cardiff was looking for stories that spoke to a Welsh audience at the time and representatives contacted Azuka, who felt it was her "call to arms" to explore Wales' links with ...

Its absolutist kings had ruled without France’s legislature – the Estates General – for more than a century and a half at the time of the American Revolution. British poet Robert Wolseley’s often ...