Brehon Bee Laws What would happen if bees from your hive swarmed and then settled in a neighbour’s tree, or if you were stung badly by one...

Renaissance Venice   Travellers who visited in Venice in the 15 th, 16 th and 17 th century never failed to marvel at the number of courte...

  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...