Most of us in this group, since it started in 2011, have been writers of historical fiction. We’ve had “straight” historians, like John Gu...

'Scheherazade and Shahryar' Artist: Marie-Elenor Godefroid (1778-1849) When I was a little girl, I was enchanted by the idea of some...

Victor Watson (see photo at the end of this piece)  was for many years  an academic at Homerton College, Cambridge and an expert on children...

I’ve spent the last few months in the 1930s. It’s a grim place in many ways, with the rise of the political far right; poverty and deprivati...

Elders playing a two-person organistrum Santiago de Compostela, Spain 12th century (wiki commons) What has more than 90 moving parts, was on...

Thankfully the ship rests in the shallows. He has not used this apparatus before and will not venture any deeper than   he must. Twenty feet...

  Lost culture is exciting. How can something be exciting when we have lost it? Most times when we talk about loss, it’s in terms of the ev...