'Certaine Wytches.' Tapestry by Anne Jackson I have just enjoyed a morning at a fascinating and unusual exhibition of knotte...

Witches are, in the perhaps unfortunate words of Grazia magazine, ‘hot right now’, both on screen and in books. Stacey Halls’ The Familia...

As its Halloween, it is almost obligatory that I should write about things that go bump in the night. This year, I’ve been enjoying my...

  In my childhood, I went to historical novels if I wanted to find out about the lives of ordinary people: even Trevelyan's 'S...