Twixt tick and tock

A clock that first struck the hour as ...

The ‘Mona Lisa of manuscripts’, finally on view

What time is it? It’s later than you think. Tempus fugit. Or, as the sundial inscription so accurately but perhaps more optimistically explains: “I only count the sunny hours.” You know full well that

Samuel Pepys’s self-incriminating diaries

YOU CAN’T HOLD BACK TIME

This year marks the 625th anniversary of The Canterbury Tales author – and “father of English literature” – Geoffrey Chaucer’s death. He penned this classic, about a merry band of medieval pilgrims te