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

Composite figment of imaginations The writer credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey, and often regarded as one of the most important authors of all time, is to my mind the most overrated hi

Still in her 20s, Gracia Mendes Nasi (Nacy), better known as Doña Gracia, was recently widowed and fabulously rich. She should have been able to live in comfort for the rest of her life. Her husband,

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

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

A love-hate relationship recalled by France’s ‘greatest living writer’