The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Hampton Court: A Theatre of the Tudor Monarchy Hampton Court arrived as part of the Tudors’ property portfolio at an odd moment in the dynasty’s history. It was not somewhere that they had inherited from their predecessors – like Westminster, the Tower of London,...
History at a Precipice: 1923 Few topics are as important as ‘rise of the Nazis’. How did a man like Hitler, a loner with few friends and followers, end up becoming German Chancellor and Führer of the twentieth century’s most brutal dictatorship? The Weimar Republic is...
The Arc of History: Tom Holland Interview It’s been almost 20 years since you wrote Rubicon, and I was thinking about this when reading your introduction to Pax. Do you think the writing of history itself has changed during that time? Well, it reflects the fact that...
Epic Poetry: Robin Lane Fox Interview Readers may be familiar with Robin Lane Fox from his masterful biography of Alexander which was a bestseller when published in 1973 when he was only 27 – an Alexandrian achievement. An Oxford don, he has written works on antiquity...
On this day in 1276, Sir John Deyville paid 578 marks to 'Peter Beset or to the abbot of St Mary's York'. In exchange he gained the right to recover his Yorkshire manor of Thornton-on-the Hill in Yorkshire. This sum was roughly equivalent to £400. John was a former...
