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The term ‘Viking’ as it is commonly used is misleading, warping our perception of the Middle Ages. It should be retired.

In 1022 heretics were discovered in northern France and burned to death for their crimes. But what caused this outbreak of radical thought?

Igor Stravinsky’s ‘shockingly contemporary’ The Rite of Spring ​​​​premiered on 29 May 1913.

There are several obstacles between Tudor women and their biographers. Bypassing them is a slow but necessary process. 

As the Nazis enclosed Warsaw’s Jewish quarter in a ghetto, a librarian set up a secret children’s library. 

The undeniable power of the Gododdin, written by the sixth-century north-British poet Aneirin.