Margaret Ruth Alleyn Stephens was born in Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, in 1929, to the Rev Archibald John Stephens, and Ella (nee Holme). She had a brother who was 16 years her senior. At the age ...

It may be difficult for many Americans to truly grasp the complex, alienating legacy of Margaret Thatcher. No recent political figure here in the U.S. was so equally loved and hated at the end of ...

While Ruth Ellis is remembered as the last woman to be hanged in Britain, her son Andy has been forgotten. Before he killed himself at the age of 37, he had long conversations with his mother's ...

A video capturing Margaret Nduta’s arrest showed her visibly worried yet composed as Vietnamese officers tested a suspicious white powdery substance Despite insisting she was unaware of the drugs in ...

Margaret Kilgallen was born in 1967 in Washington, D.C., and received her BA in printmaking from Colorado College in 1989. Shortly afterward, the artist moved to San Francisco, where she took up ...

What makes reading Margaret Atwood such fun is her gift for enjoying herself so thoroughly as she writes. She makes you share her zest for words, people, jokes, sharp-edged description and endless ...

In 1955 Ruth Ellis was the last woman hanged in Britain for the murder of her lover. In this investigative three-part series film-maker Gillian Pachter re-examines the case.