Frosts, ice and snow in June, July and August? It happened one legendary summer — and it took scientists about 100 years to ...

FEW physicians, fresh from medical school, have undergone a more trying experience than John William Polidori, Lord Byron's traveling physician in 1816. With frustrations at every turn by the envir ...

The Villa Diodati, where Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Lord Byron and John Polidori wrote ghost stories, eventually leading to the publishing of "Frankenstein" Around two hundred years ...

Byron was in the van of those poets who came to be known as “Romantics,” and his life had something of the turbulence of a fairy tale. The future Lord Byron was born in 1788 to a family that could ...

In 1816 Byron went into exile. For seven years he ... At the Acropolis Museum in Athens, an exhibition notes that Byron was one of the earliest critics of Lord Elgin’s seizure of the Parthenon ...

Athens – for a love that would endure (1810) The disintegration of his marriage would send Byron into something of a spiral. He fled Britain in April 1816, vowing never to return.

Robin, 13th Lord Byron, who read from his ancestor's 1816 poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; Dr Christine Kenyon Jones, committee member of the Byron Society, who read from Don Juan; Dr Emily ...

This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase now) died fighting for Greek independence in the marshes of Missolonghi.

In 1816 Byron went into exile. For seven years he roamed Italy, frequenting Venice’s carnival, taking lovers, ... → Two centuries after his death, why is Lord Byron still seductive?