History’s greatest conundrums and mysteries solved

The award-winning novelist on raw fish, pickled cucumber and Champagne, and drinking Latour ’85 on Hampstead Heath from a tin mug

Shakespeare’s works are peppered with countless food references: pies, cakes, capons and a great deal of sherry, for starters. Some are set-dressing details, but many were allusions that would have be

‘Green sickness’, also known as the ‘disease of virgins’ – a diagnosis applied mainly to teenage girls from the 16th to the 19th centuries – is one of the most puzzling conditions in the history of me

Discover wildly different courting customs and the origin of international wedding traditions

In the early 1940s, the Royal Mint replaced the familiar image of a portcullis on the threepenny coin with a thrift plant. This was part of the government’s campaign reminding the public of the need f

QAre there any statistics on how many people eat their ‘five a day’ fruit of veg? A There were some figures released last year by the UK Government from its national diet and nutrition survey, between