The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary Kate ...

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

“One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb,” goes the old proverb. The meaning is simple: if you are going to be punished for a small crime, you may as well commit the bigger one. In the early

Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders Rory Stewart (Jonathan ...

I Suffer Therefore I Am: Portrait of the ...

I enjoyed reading the interesting article by Caitlin Ellis on the rivals for the throne in 1066 (October). In particular, it was fascinating to read about Edgar Ætheling’s claim, which was surely the