David Wengrow is professor of comparative archaeology at University College London. His books include What Makes Civilisation ...

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'Hero and Leander' was published in 1598, and anyone who came across it in a stationer’s shop in Elizabethan London would have known that its author was dead, killed in a brawl in Deptford in 1593.

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I n October ​ I went to the Royal Albert Hall to watch the final of the National Brass Band Championships. Each of the ...

The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless – A lump of death – a chaos of hard clay.

Chris Given-Wilson’s new Life of Thomas Arundel, Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker, comes out next month.