Blood and bling
There must be any number of self-respecting gemmologists out there on first-name terms with other diamonds, but for most of…
Too young to die
In the north transept of Westminster Abbey, there is a memorial by Joseph Nollekens to three British captains killed at…
England’s unloved king
Aethelred the Unready (c.968—1016) has not, as Levi Roach acknowledges, enjoyed a good press. In recent times there may have…
The man who changed the world
On 31 October 1517, as every child once knew, an obscure German monk nailed his 95 theses to the door…
