This week, on 23rd April, it was the birthday of William Shakespeare, allegedly the world’s greatest playwright – or was he?! During his...

From the fall of the Roman Empire, through the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance, the monks of Northern Europe could be...

In Roman times, a man about town might well spend his morning at the public baths, his ablutions followed by a few hours browsing and...

Almost as soon as ancient civilisations developed the earliest form of writing – cuneiform on clay tablets in Mesopotamia, hieroglyphics...

Are you going to a Halloween party tonight? If so, make sure you get there unfashionably early (before sunset), if you want to avoid the...