For more than four hundred years, domestic manuals have done far more than offer women recipes and guidelines for running a household. The...

I’m going on holiday very early tomorrow morning, and tonight we have sixteen people coming for supper and some music. In retrospect, this m...

Like many of us, I grew up in a time of protest. In Canada, we marched against the war in Vietnam (I carried a placard with the catchy sloga...

The Ancient Egyptians worshipped a pantheon of well over 1,400 gods and goddesses – possibly as many as 2,000.   Each deity was believed to ...

  I’m thinking about historical sources. Not just any historical sources, but ones that give us access to everyday lives. There are sources...

Could a house be unlucky?  I'm not sure I believe in such things, but something prickled the back of my neck when I was researching the ...

    Minoan Textiles   For millennia, women in particular sat together, spinning, weaving and sewing, but because textiles are perishable...