
Bookshop of the Month – Ampleforth Abbey Bookshop, North Yorkshire
This July, medieval history enthusiasts from all over the world will descend on Leeds for the 25th annual…
This July, medieval history enthusiasts from all over the world will descend on Leeds for the 25th annual…
The Paston Treasure – one of the most enigmatic paintings in Western art – has come back home to the…
The extravagant gardens of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest…
This month marks the bicentenary of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx’s birth. To mark this moment, we…
In his new book The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia, Mark Galeotti explores the underground world of the Russian mafia,…
Margarette Lincoln offers five things that you may not know about London’s maritime world in the age of…
To celebrate both International Women’s Day and the centenary of women’s suffrage in Britain, we’ve taken a look…
This transcript is an edited extract from an interview conducted by the new Hedghog & Fox podcast at…
‘She found herself facing the question of whether to commit suicide or to undertake something wildly crazy.’ –…
A Day at Home in Early Modern England is co-authored by art historian Tara Hamling and literary scholar…
We spoke to Eleri Lynn, fashion historian and curator responsible for the dress collection at Historic Royal Palaces,…
Lynne Vallone’s analytical tour-de-force, Big and Small, investigates bodily size difference as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought….
It has been 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle…
To coincide with the launch of The Tiger in the Smoke by Lynda Nead – her third publication for…
Brutus’s leading role in the assassination of Caesar immortalised his name, but the verdict on his act remains out…