All change: ancestor money & measurements

Q How often does the Tower Bridge in London open? A The bridge operators say that, on average, it opens roughly 800 times a year. Captains of ships which require to pass through the bridge need to giv

How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

Ed Hughes explains all that you need to know…

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A round-up of recent poetry books

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