The original hot cross buns were known as soul cakes, and were distributed at Christmas, Easter and All Saints Eve (Halloween), until Queen Elizabeth (the original one) decreed that they should only ...

Within less than a decade, Charles’s ‘reign of peace’ had imploded and the two amateur impresarios found themselves on opposing sides in the ensuing civil war – Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–75) as a ...

A former Oxford University student claims they felt “alienated from the very start”. Hugo Harvey from Cork started studying for a bachelor’s degree in English literature and language at the university ...