Behind the aztec myths

He’s the beleaguered king on the run, finding courage and inspiration in the perseverance of a spider. The noble hero on his great horse, gazing across the field of his most famous victory. The inspir

The Daily Sport ran an article about me once. They sent me a mock-up before it went to press, and I had two notes of crucial feedback. Firstly, the headline read: “Possessed by Demons… we all have a f

Six decades ago, human spaceflight was a two-sided coin, as the United States and Soviet Russia competed for primacy in the Space Race during the Cold War. With global nuclear holocaust looming menaci

DAVE ANNAL is a genealogist, author and lecturer ALAN CROSBY is the editor of The Local Historian and our columnist (see page 13) ANTONY MARR is a fellow, and previous chair, of AGRA and a former depu

While the word dinosaur stems from the Greek for ‘terrible lizard’, dinosaurs aren’t lizards. This distinction is based on anatomical features, notably the legs. A lizard’s legs stick out at right ang

THE MOST DOMINANT FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE IS ALSO ITS MOST MYSTERIOUS AND MOST UNANTICIPATED