Who hijacked henry viii’s will?

A coroner’s view of Tudor ends

Ellie Cawthorne Why was the winter of 1641–42 such a pivotal time in British and Irish history? Jonathan Healey In the heart of that winter came one of the most iconic moments in English political his

Different ways of dying across the British Isles

“SINCE IT IS DIFFICULT FOR A UNIVER sity ...

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa

Horses were involved in King Harold’s defeat at Hastings – but also in the demise of his Norman conqueror It’s one of the most famous of all medieval images. Harold II stands upon the battlefield at H