When the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II seized Constantinople in 1453 shockwaves radiated through Christian Europe. According to Pope Pius II,…
In May 1720 an infected ship from the Levant arrived in Marseilles, bringing with it the last major epidemic of…
When it opened in 1881 the comic opera Patience was the first theatrical production in the world to be lit…
In her 2010 memoir Tales from a Mountain City, Quynh Dao – who was 15 at the fall of Saigon…
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…