From its royal history to the many times the pearl was almost lost, here’s the story behind La Peregrina.

Diamond became involved with photography as soon as he heard of its invention in 1839. He was an early adopter of the collodion process invented by his friend Frederick Scott Archer around 1850, which ...

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In early 2023, three amateur codebreakers announced they had successfully decoded the secret correspondence of one of the most tragic characters in European history: Mary, Queen of Scots. 57 encrypted ...

Queen Margaret University (QMU), Edinburgh has launched an innovative BA (Hons) Digital and Graphic Design course, which is set to welcome its first cohort of undergraduate students in September 2026.

Lady Anne Glenconner has revealed how she and Princess Margaret narrowly escaped death during a terrifying flight through a ...

Queen Elizabeth II dropped the royal scepter when it came to finding a suitable wife for Prince Charles, the man who would be ...

As a child Mary loved writing in code. As a captive queen, it became essential to her survival. Since childhood, Mary Stuart had enjoyed writing in cipher. Later in life, as Queen of Scots and a ...

Mary, Queen of Scots– ill, paranoid and desperate in her years of captivity under Elizabeth I – passed many of the long and dreary hours of her incarceration writing letters, many in code. Now, over ...

The imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots used sophisticated ciphers as she conspired to overthrow her cousin, Elizabeth I. Long thought lost, the letters were hiding in plain sight. A portrait of a ...

Tracing the extraordinary story of the amateur codebreakers who collaborated across continents to decipher a mysterious cache of coded letters which were discovered to be from Mary, Queen of Scots.