The strange affair of the two-headed amulet

Strange phenomena have always drawn crowds and history is replete with miracles that have been witnessed by many people

One morning, after 65-year-old Chonthirat Sakulku had been bedridden for two years with deteriorating health, her brother found that she had stopped breathing and assumed she was dead. He alerted the

“Welcome to the 19th century,” began Jeremy Harte, introducing the Folklore Society’s Legendary Weekend examining ‘Lying in Legend and Tradition’. Gathering at Carlisle’s Tullie House Museum over 6-7

Carolyne Larrington Britiash Library 2025 Hb, 96pp, £12.99, ISBN 9780712355186 The Little Book of Trolls is an absolute delight, made even more so by the fact that its author is a professor emerita of

As the London Museum prepares to unveil the Cheapside Hoard in new premises on Smithfield, Will Hosie speaks to historian Victoria Shepherd about the story behind these precious jewels

The sale of a Fabergé imperial egg and a 15th-century triptych made headlines last year, but one of the most powerful pieces was a painting by Richard Parkes Bonington showing what he could have become, had he not died so young