henrietta leyser

What happens when our oldest stories fail us? When all the rules have changed? The classic myth of Persephone — reimagined for a modern-day reader. P

MEDIEVAL WOMEN looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.

'Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the Battle of Maldon, an epic poem written to celebrate the bra

A Pevsner-like guide to the remains of Bede's England.

Arguing that the desperate struggle (led by Alfred the Great) against the Vikings helped define a distinctively English sensibility, the author explor