England, tutted fifteenth-century Frenchmen, is where they kill their kings. Though the comment’s smug self-satisfaction ...

For such small fish, anchovies pack a big punch. They can be eaten on their own or as part of almost any dish, from pasta sauces to vinaigrettes. Yet for every person who loves them there will be ...

Azrael’s name in Hebrew translates as “help from God”, an indication of his importance not just in Christian tradition, but in Islamic and Jewish scripture too. He plays the role of the psychopomp, ...

For decades the so-called New York School of painters – associated chiefly with abstract expressionism – has been synonymous with a group of male artists, with Jackson Pollock at its molten centre.

Perhaps no phrase more neatly sums up the past fifteen or so years of British politics than “Broken Britain”. The expression, which actually started on the right to describe the apparent social decay ...

If you were taught the “correct” way to draw a map at school, this doubtless involved including a scale, having a key for your symbols and adding a compass rose with north at the top. You probably ...

It is said that after tobacco arrived from the New World in the late sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth took a discreet pull on a clay pipe before deciding against smoking. James I’s reaction was even ...