It seems you can pick up bits of dead kings just about anywhere now. We’re all still buzzing with the discovery of Richard III under a...

  In 1552 a fifteen year old boy, Felix Platter, left his home in Basle to go and study medicine in the south of France. He wrote an ac...

Not everyone's cup of tea, but I couldn't wait to see it. I have visited caves in the Dordogne and in the Pyrenees and seen the...

Last week I was wandering around Hastings with my brother, idly sight-seeing.   Among the tall black-painted net huts below RockaNor...

(Warning : there's not an awful lot of history in this...) I've been musing recently about the relationship between thinking and w...

And the winners of Deborah White's book, Deceit, are : Ruan Peat Sarah (Walker) Marjorie Young Historian Please contact Liz Scott...

 I know, I know, it's that day isn't it. And I had intended to write a piece about St Dwynwen, Wales's very own Saint of Love ...