Catherine of Siena (1347-80) was made a saint in 1461, less than a century after she died. In 1970 Pope…
In the early 1910s a young woman set out every day to walk the river banks near Galashiels in the…
By the end of the medieval period millers had poor reputations. Chaucer’s miller in the Canterbury Tales was coarse, vulgar,…
In December 1593 Robert Persons, a leader of the English Jesuits on the Continent, was putting the finishing touches to…
A recent discovery in Gibraltar has unveiled one of the most advanced manufacturing sites of the ancient world: a Neanderthal…
A recent discovery at the Drumanagh promontory fort in North Dublin is reshaping our understanding of Ireland’s Iron Age trade…
In the quiet and peaceful village of Aquileia, in northern Italy near the Adriatic Sea coast, archaeologists from the Austrian…
John Pearce/The Conversation In the amphitheatre of Gladiator II, Ridley Scott trains his lens on fighters and emperors – but…
History is full of inventive, albeit disturbing, methods of making people squirm, confess, or simply regret their life choices. Among…
“Jesus is God.” An inscription declaring this to be a reality, the earliest and oldest written expression of the Christian…