There is another figure whose role in the second Viking Age was equally pivotal: Thorkell the Tall. Arguably the most ...

It was notable that when Iran decided – unusually – to flex some hard power towards Israel in April 2024, a number of key regional states, not least Jordan, were unwilling to give it a free hand. But ...

Nile Green is Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA and author of Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah (W.W. Norton) In the mid-1500s, the ...

Every September two friends and I go on pilgrimage. They are both pretty devout – one is a priest. I am indulged as a wistful agnostic. Growing enthusiasm for the Camino de Santiago over recent ...

Isaac Watts had gone to visit the Abneys thirty-six years before, in 1712, when they lived in Hertfordshire, intending to stay for a week, but he never managed to leave. He was buried, as he had ...