On the grounds of a sprawling Suffolk park, an unusual blend of book, bow and and the feeling of time travel awaits visitors. The Anglo-Saxon village in West Stow Country Park provides a hands-on ...

Gaze around Britain’s great cathedrals and castles, at the carved stone and painted glass – the biblia idiotarum or “books of the unlettered” – and they eloquently evoke every age back to William the ...

Lawrence Nees has been teaching University of Delaware students for 40 years, and lecturing around the world about art history for even longer than that, but he’s about to deliver what he calls ...

This massive and beautiful book is the oldest complete version of the Bible in Latin and it's a masterpiece. Copyright Sam Lane Photography. White nationalists often ...

The largest of only four surviving books of Anglo-Saxon poetry has been put on display at Exeter Cathedral. The Exeter Anthology of Old English Verse will be publicly displayed one afternoon a month ...

An exhibition currently being staged in London harks back to a time when the North East was a real powerhouse. An intellectual and political powerhouse whose books helped shed light on the history of ...

According to an ancient Latin text on traditional herbal remedies, drinking a concoction of white wine boiled with artichokes can rid one of body odour. The illustrated text titled Cotton MS Vitellius ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The five centuries between the end of Roman rule and the Norman Conquest were, for a long time, seen as a culturally desolate era in British history. Whereas classical civilisation was associated with ...