Cultural Crusader

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

The Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London EC2

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

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

John Constable painted Salisbury Cathedral and Leadenhall from ...