Held in high esteem and lavished with furs, velvet and precious stones, young male choristers-turned-bishops were all the rage at Christmas in the Middle Ages, says Matthew Dennison

I had watched Richard III meet a bloody end at Bosworth, come face to face with a plague victim, stood in the shadow of a mighty trebuchet, and been put on trial for my life. And it was barely lunchti

Creating the Coronation invitation was the job of a lifetime for heraldic artist Andrew Jamieson , as Charlotte Reather discovers

If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

The Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter, Devon, part I

The Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London EC2