ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

Owain Glyndŵr attempted to free Wales from the tyrannical grasp of the English but vanished into obscurity

Is this the age of dictators?” asked veteran journalist Sir Sidney Low. He was writing in September 1923, the month in which a military coup brought Miguel Primo de Rivera to power in Spain. At the sa

Our historians discuss the movies that have informed and inspired them

Ask most British motorhomers about their preferred European road trip destinations and you’re likely to hear familiar answers: France, Spain, maybe even Italy and Portugal. Germany, however, rarely ma

Halfway up the hill on the north bank of the River Neckar in Heidelberg is a path called the Philosophers’ Walk. Taking its name from the days when the university’s professors and students used to str