A season of cosy fires, generous gifts, and time spent with family, Christmas is the season when myths and traditions intertwine with festive spirit to shelter you from the cold and dark. But through ...
As downfalls go, it was spectacular – and brutally swift. On 10 June 1540, Thomas Cromwell arrived at court for what should have been a routine meeting of the Privy Council. As this son of Putney was ...
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“Tory spending cuts send us back to the misery of the Victorian workhouse,” cried a Mirror headline in 2010. Workhouses were “bleak, grimly austere and oppressive”, wrote the author of a study of one ...