Excalibur

Luther Ford is sitting in the cafe at the BFI on the South Bank in London when Big Issue arrives. He’s casually dressed in baggy T-shirt and shorts, baseball cap, trainers. But he has a bag full of cl

Somehow, it isn’t hard to imagine the scene of battle here, even on a sultry July morning when only the distant growl of a motorbike interrupts the crooning of collared doves. Perhaps it is the quiet.

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.

JAMES NORTON and NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU on their swords-and-shields saga telling the story behind the Norman invasion

King and Conqueror dramatises the bloody conflict that ended with a fateful battle in 1066. Historian David Musgrove fills in the details

R eady for your old history lessons to ...