Deborah Swift My fourth book in the Giulia Tofana series, The Cameo Keeper, focuses on medicine and healing in the 17th Century, a time of ...

  Researching for my second book in the 'Soldier Spy' trilogy, it’s been quite a journey to learn about the extent of spying, on bot...

Following the bumper box office success of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey this summer, online searches for ‘Learn Ancient Greek’ have soared a...

  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...