Conquest? what conquest?

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

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

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With Hallowe’en out of the way, Christmas is the next big ghostly occasion in the UK traditional calendar. But what, one may wonder, of the rest of Europe? Ghost hunter Peter Underwood called Europe “

For two brief days, the eyes of the world were on the Vatican. Cardinal Vincent Nichols , Archbishop of Westminster, reveals what really happened when 133 cardinals met to elect Pope Leo XIV

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