The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were ...

"Earthy Paradise," a radiant new exhibition at Van Doren Waxter in New York, shines a light on the life and legacy of ...

Older French women are casting off unforgiving codes about femininity and ageing. Two journalists approaching 60, Valérie ...

Madeleine Riffaud, who has died aged 100, was a heroine of the French Resistance and one of the last surviving ... whose ...