The earth-shattering collapse of the Western Roman Empire was the result of invasions, corruption and cruelty

The normal diet of gladiators was vegetarian, but not through choice or principle. The rations in their barracks consisted of sagina, which literally translates as ‘stuffing’. It was a barley and bean

Why this great empire believed bloody rites and cannibalism brought order to the cosmos

KATIE HINDMARCH-WATSON describes a sex scandal that consumed Queen Victoria’s grandson On 7 July 1889, a policeman arrested a sometime telegraph boy, Henry Newlove, at his mother’s house in Camden Tow

THE LIFE AND SCANDAL OF PRINCESS LOUISE, PRINCE ALBERT’S MOTHER

The article on the battle against U-boats in the Second World War in the November issue omitted perhaps the most important episode. That was the part played by the late Joe Baker-Cresswell of Bamburgh