History’s greatest conundrums and mysteries solved

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

Strange murder mysterie s from times gone by

The piece I’d never part with

It is almost 200 years since the Zoological Society of London opened its animal collection in Regent’s Park. There was a zoo before that, actually a menagerie, in a very surprising place, the Tower of

That threatened thrones

Feeling swish MY father, the Revd Dr Stephen ...