Place to visit: Mr Straw House in Nottinghamshire, UK
Discover a time capsule of interwar life at the Worksop home of the Straw family who decided to leave their...
11/05/2013
HISTORY
The Puzzle of Proto-Elamite
In a room at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, high above the fragments of early civilisations that are housed there,...
24/04/2013
What is the nature of Margaret Thatcher’s legacy?
The Iron Lady is as polarising in death as she was in life. While some mourn her passing and hail...
13/04/2013
Jacob Tonson and the Kit-Cat Club
In the snowy spring of 1733, Samuel Croxall, a classical translator, travelled to Herefordshire to visit his retired publisher, Jacob...
11/04/2013
The First Crusade: The shock of the new?
When in March of 1095 Pope Urban II made a speech to an assembly of French nobility and clergy at...
07/04/2013
Ukranian ‘Great famine’ of 1933
Key countries around the world are officially reclassifying one of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies – the Ukranian Great Famine...
22/03/2013
Napoleon in caricature
The turn of the 19th century was a golden age of caricature across much of the northern Europe – from...
16/03/2013
How to cope with Viking attacks?
Historians and archeologists increasingly recognize the fact that many fortifications and fortified towns – known in Old English as burhs...
16/03/2013
Memorializing Edward the Confessor
An anonymous author in c. 1067 completed a Life of King Edward, commissioned by his widow Edith. The second part...
01/03/2013
Victorian Scotland
By the time Victoria became queen of Great Britain in 1837 the powers of the monarch were much more restricted...
24/02/2013