History’s greatest conundrums and mysteries solved

When skirts, tights and frills were the hallmarks of masculinity

Today, clogs are mainly associated with the north of England, but this hard-wearing, affordable footwear was common across Britain from Victorian times right through World War Two. With a shaped woode

Horses were involved in King Harold’s defeat at Hastings – but also in the demise of his Norman conqueror It’s one of the most famous of all medieval images. Harold II stands upon the battlefield at H

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa

How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

The story of hat pins is not just the story of hats, explains Sarah White, the Fashion, Costume and Textiles expert at Tennants Auctioneers, ‘It’s also the story of women.’ By the early years of the 2