New productions of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” Annie Ernaux’s “The Years,” Robert Icke’s “Manhunt,” Tennessee Williams’s “The ...

Alfred the Great was once a poster-boy for male gallantry, but he fell out of favour in the last century. Now he is ripe for ...

Her dazzling, jocular novel “The Pretender” recounts the journey of one John Collan, from his anonymous boyhood in a rural ...

These remarkable individuals rose from humble beginnings to one of the most powerful positions of the medieval world ... despite being those of an ordinary boy from a peasant family, would pave the ...

Games, gowns, Latin and the birch (or their modern equivalents: PE, blazers, applied maths and permanent exclusion) all seem to be of an era long past the Elizabethan age with which Nicholas Orme ends ...

Few elite attitudes have been so consistently held over time, nor is this any surprise. In the satirical medieval peasant utopias of Cockaigne and Luilekkerland, where “toil and trouble are ever ...

A retired North Vancouver teacher has been found guilty of sexual offences against several boys, most of whom were his Grade 6 students in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Over much of the day on ...

This is a series of thirteen essays designed to bring before the general reader the fruits of the latest research on medieval warfare. After half a dozen chapters, laid out chronologically from the ...

Suddenly he came across a peasant who led him to the mutilated body of a young boy lying under a tree. It was obvious that a crime had been committed. The boy's name was William, and no one could ...