Autor: Catharine Arnold

Telling someone that his or her life is whatever fate has in store for them is one thing. Now try telling them that they had a hand in designing that fate. With a strong belief in a higher power and …

The life of William Shakespeare, Britain“s greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph an …

From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards deat …

If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. From the bath houses of Roman Londinium to the sexual underground of the twentieth century and beyond, The Sexual History of London is a …