Lockwood’s This Land of Promise examines the memoirs and biographies of a selection of prominent refugees from the 16th to ...

Less famous than its 1215 predecessor, the Magna Carta of 1225 held the true power.

Rome’s first theatre was an enormous spectacle intended to glorify Pompey’s successes. Was it all bread and circuses? I n the ...

On 9 March 1522 the Swiss Reformation began with an ‘ostentatious eating of sausages.’ T he Reformation in Switzerland began ...

On 5 March 1936 the prototype Spitfire made its maiden flight. Its creator R.J. Mitchell would not live to see its finest ...

This superbly ominous story is the earliest English record of the legend of the Wild Hunt. This legend, found in folklore ...

Viv Sanders takes issue with some all too common assumptions. Graham Goodlad reviews the controversial career of William Pitt the Elder, whose ascendancy coincided with Britain’s involvement in the ...

A study of the hostile legends, immortalized in Shakespeare’s tragic drama, that have gathered around the real historical figure of Macbeth. Shakespeare’s Macbeth, king of scots, was a real person; ...

In its first two centuries of existence Christianity witnessed the persecution of many of its members by officials of the Roman Empire; the causes of these persecutions have been and continue to be ...

Museums can provide a neutral yet contextualised space where discussions flourish, as has been seen at the Florence Nightingale Museum this summer with an ongoing debate about the suitability of a ...

F.M. Godfrey sifts through diverse depictions of Italy's Renaissance family.