Spawn could be considered the greatest indie character ever. Todd McFarlane’s creation was the first Image solo hero, and has lasted for over thirty years. Though not as popular as he once was, Spawn ...

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 ...

As the AI-generated videos look left to right, they speculate on what it might have looked like to be a Medieval peasant during the Black Death, or a knight preparing for battle, just to name a few. I ...

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 14-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after two teenagers were stabbed in a park on Monday. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is also charged with ...

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 ...

Motherland France did not reciprocate this love; the native peasant boys took it personally. From the boys Marie occasionally accepted small gifts—”a knife, a printed handkerchief, a ruler ...