My thanks for one of your wonderful book reviews. On your pages, I find books that other, more “trendy” reviewers largely ignore. This one, “The Wordhord” by Hana Videen, reviewed by Henry Hitchings ...

Medieval travel was not an adventure — it was a dangerous gamble against weather, thieves, forests, disease, exhaustion, and ...

Buried in a Lancashire riverbank and ignored by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the story of the Viking warlord Ingimund and his catastrophic siege of Chester reveals a chapter of early medieval history ...

While Æthelstan’s grandfather, Alfred, had revived the practice of issuing law codes, Æthelstan was by far the ...