A day out in Edinburgh recently and walking through the Cowgate, I passed this sign. Few figures in sixteenth-century Scotland aroused str...

The Ayrshire Vendetta. It is 440 years since the Massacre of Annock. Though not an unusual occurrence in the lawlessness of Scotland in the ...

 Trading Standards 16th century style. Or… what’s in this meat pie?  For those of us in Britain the cost of food has noticeably increased ov...

A Jenny Haniver Photo: M.Violante It is so important to take children to museums, I mean proper museums with real objects in glass cases, no...

Like a great cloud The Wiraqochas [Whites] Demanding gold Have invaded us.          The Death of Atau Wallpa , Runasimi [Quechua] epic lamen...

 On 19th May this year I visited Hever Castle, Anne Boleyn's childhood home. It was on this day in 1536 that Anne was beheaded at the To...