The pandora’s box of paranoias

BY THE BOOK I’m writing to say how ...

Ancient rural skills in a modern world

Strange murder mysterie s from times gone by

THE PICK OF THE BEST AUDIO ON DEMAND

In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle

I must extend my huge thanks to Jon Winder for his excellent article Swings and Roundabouts (July). I am currently scribbling notes which I hope to turn into a memoir of my childhood, and one chapter