History Matters

Recent government proposals are merely the latest in a long history of hostility.

Quarantine is intended to protect, but it can also punish.

In Anglo-Saxon England a hill could be a dragon’s lair and a ditch the home of gods.

What does it mean to rebuild Notre-Dame?

23 years before the Mayflower, the first pilgrim settlers to America tried, and failed, to settle in Newfoundland.

The past and future of punctuation marks.

Medieval women’s bodies were a battleground: they were either irretrievably sinful, or they were Christ-like.

The 1980 Protect and Survive booklet opened government plans to ridicule.

The Plague was not just a medieval illness.

Carving our names on great monuments is a millennia-old tradition, but why do we do it?