In Our Time is a weekly BBC R4 conversation hosted by Melvyn Bragg with usually three top scholars or academics in their field of study. ...

Hildegard of Bingen is credited with writing the first plainchant music that excels in the acoustic environment of a purposefully designed ...

You may recall that I was recently floored by a dancer with the Kyiv City Ballet Gala at Southampton Mayflower theatre, and that I couldn&...

If anyone has any information on these, can you get in touch please? I've done my own digging and the only facts I have; are they were f...

All of the topics in the title have been discussed here over the years so use the search engine box or the tags at the end of the post if a...

My father has never acknowledged that I've ever been correct apart from one frivolous occasion a few days after decades of silence I men...

It's an exceptional presentation and sometimes hallucinogenic in its Damascene honesty.  Unforgettable.  What was the name of the colle...

A lot of history is biased, which is why Diocletian requires more attention. A lowly born Roman emperor. Did some amazing things, made some...

Tom the Vivisectionist of Versailles (alongside my trusty stalwart Dominic Twinkle Eye) has a much more prosaic explanation for my money ch...