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...family past. You know there's some "fellow traveller" thing going on there. And then also there's this organic sort of impetus on his part. Titchmarsh comes in and then after Titchmarsh we get Monty [Don] right? And what does Monty do? Monty has this extraordinary focus on the social possibilities of gardens, even doing a series where he tries to get damaged young people...

...History’. Further reading Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (London: The Bodley Head, 2014). Clinton Bennett, In Search of Solutions: The Problem of Religion and Conflict (London: Equinox, 2008). John D. Brewer, Gareth I. Higgins and Francis Teeney, Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford: Oxford University...

...history that has proved provocative and culturally resonant for the last hundred years. In this free online course, The First World War: trauma and memory, you will study the subject of physical and mental trauma, its treatments and its representation. You will focus not only on the trauma experienced by combatants but also the effects of the First World War on civilian...

...history and the cultural work of the writer’s house museum for my latest book. The first writer’s house that admirers visited after he died in 1374 was Petrarch’s in Arqua, Italy. But what did these admirers hope to find? One of the earliest comments on the oddness of this impulse to visit dead authors at home is the elaborate practical joke known as ‘Petrarch’s...