Who was Matthew Webb? How many books were in Umberto Eco’s library?

Edith Lanchester was abducted and committed on 25 October 1895, causing a national outcry.

Mississippi’s governors have had a unique approach to prison labour and prisoner rehabilitation. 

As the age of revolutions swept across Europe, the Pacific also witnessed dramatic changes when monarchies were rebuilt and societies transformed. 

Throughout the centuries countless libraries and carefully curated book collections have been dispersed, destroyed or lost. 

Tall tales of Pompeii’s lost lives form part of a long history of sensationalism. 

‘No historical record is an unmediated window into the past.’

The medieval parish church was the meeting point of many different things, both sacred and secular.