“A Londoner to me is someone in the inner boroughs rather than the outer ones. I was born in Kent and I’m from Kent.” So says Lesley Binks, from Barnehurst, Bexley. She was just six years ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

Joe Bromley, Fashion Editor 10 March 2025 No one was more surprised than medieval armourer Matthew Finchen. One of the most memorable looks from all of London Fashion Week was not made in an airy ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts detailing treatments ranging from the commonplace to the truly peculiar, ...

Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.

Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments ... and place them so deeply in the private parts that they touch the uterus, and leave there for three days, during which she should abstain ...