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The ancient Egyptian underworld

The earliest funerary texts we have are the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts and unlike later texts they did not include images, consisting purely of hieroglyphic...

Sarah David
24 February 202324 February 2023
HISTORY

British Museum

RICHARD JEFFERIES contrasted the pigeons outside the British Museum (‘To them the building is merely a rock, pierced with convenient caverns’) with the humans vainly...

Sarah David
15 February 202315 February 2023
HISTORY

Stalingrad

Eighty years after it ended, the Battle of Stalingrad remains a byword for the horror of modern warfare Why is the battle so important?The Battle...

Sarah David
4 February 20234 February 2023
HISTORY

Shear genius

Christopher Stocks traces the story of topiary, from its ancient origins to the modern day WE don’t know who first looked at a bush and...

Sarah David
11 January 202311 January 2023
HISTORY

The history of English Home old and new

ON Wednesday, November 26, 1947, the aesthete, conservationist and writer James, or ‘Jim’, Lees-Milne arrived in Yorkshire by train for a visit to Harewood House....

Sarah David
5 January 20235 January 2023
HISTORY

Crowning glory

On 2 June 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned during a three-hour-long ceremony of pomp, pageantry and almost 1000-year-old tradition at Westminster Abbey. She was...

H.Heib
23 November 202223 November 2022
HISTORY

England’s last boy king

Edward VI was a palefaced, sickly child. Just nine years old when declared king in 1547, he would be a puppet of powerful courtiers and...

H.Heib
17 November 202217 November 2022
HISTORY

The Koh-i-Noor: a 105-carat controversy

The Koh-i-Noor “is neither the biggest diamond in the world, nor the most beautiful”, said Anita Anand in The Guardian. But it is “arguably the...

Sarah David
22 October 202227 November 2022
HISTORY

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service,” vowed a fresh-faced Princess...

Sarah David
18 September 202212 December 2022
HISTORY

A PRINCESS IS BORN

When she was born on 21 April 1926, in Bruton Street, London, nobody could have foreseen that the first child of the Duke and Duchess...

Sarah David
13 September 202213 September 2022
HISTORY

Once home to Clan Jardine

Built in 1450, Spedlins, in the Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland, is thought to be one of the most haunted buildings in Britain, and...

Sarah David
16 August 202227 November 2022
HISTORY

HISTORIC TOWNS WINCHCOMBE

In February 2021 Winchcombe was struck by one of the few meteorites to land in Britain, yet this was just the latest significant event to...

Sarah David
15 August 202215 August 2022
HISTORY

The Duchess’s Downfall

If you are one of the millions of people who tuned into the superbly crafted mini-series A Very British Scandal, you will be familiar with...

Sarah David
14 August 202214 August 2022
HISTORY

THE MAN WHO ENRICHED LONDON

In a new book, Michael McCarthy charts the life and times of the medieval mayor who left London in a much better condition than he...

Sarah David
9 August 20229 August 2022

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