The ballad, then, underscores the sensational, multimedia nature of the Logroño auto de fe, which laid bare a nightmarish ...

What the war released above all was a spirit of ephemerality’ Mark Polizzotti is Head of Publications at the Metropolitan ...

Unfortunately, most of Euripides’ work has not come down to us. Only 17 complete tragedies and one satyr play have survived.

H elen Cam (1885-1968), the first woman to be elected to a chair at Harvard, was a formidable English medievalist. Unusually ...

A cross in the road in Oxford’s Broad St marks the site of the execution. Workmen had discovered part of a stake and some bits of charred bone there, in what had once been part of the town ditch.

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 ...

The results of the 1945 general election exceeded the hopes of the most fervent Labour supporter. Never before had the party achieved an overall majority in the House of Commons, and yet now Labour ...

The first non-Italian pope to be elected in four centuries, and widely regarded as one of the most memorable, was born Karol Jozef Wojtyla in 1920 in a small town in Poland, near Krakow. His mother ...

Has more silly nonsense been written about any institution in history than the Order of Knights Templar? The community of Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon was founded after ...

Sometimes the camera gets it right – the Russian soldier implanting the Red Flag on the Reich Chancellery, the man-on-the-dole at the Wigan street-corner, Monroe coyly controlling her skirt in The ...

Graham Goodlad examines the part played by military coalitions in an era of great change. Graham Goodlad examines differing interpretations of the part played by King Charles I in the outbreak of 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; ...