The horse we rode in on

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

In the second of our series exploring rail’s history, development and function in relation to rival transport modes, CHRISTIAN WOLMAR takes to the roads

The global reach of the Indo-European mother tongue

OLIVER WHEELER considers how Britain’s railway stations have shaped our lives for two centuries

Visiting Coventry in 1934, a centre of the motor industry, writer JB Priestley mused that, “The modern motor car represents an astonishing feat of human ingenuity. If we were one half so clever in the

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...