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Alex Burghart

Oswald of Northumbria – an Anglo-Saxon saint-king of the north for our time

Alex Burghart 12 October 2019 9:00 am

In Hamlet a gravedigger asks the riddle: ‘What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or…

When William I’s bloody conquest came to an end, it was his coronation in London, on Christmas Day 1066, that sealed it

What did the Romans ever do for London?

Alex Burghart 12 January 2019 9:00 am

When Bishop Guy of Amiens looked across the Channel in the 11th century he saw ‘teeming London [which] shines bright.…

For some soldiers, the VC was easier to win than to wear

Alex Burghart 24 March 2018 9:00 am

‘The Victoria Cross,’ gushed a mid-19th-century contributor to the Art Journal, ‘is thoroughly English in every particular. Given alike to…

Maxwell Knight with his favourite pet, Goo the cuckoo

Maxwell Knight — a great spymaster and an honourable man

Alex Burghart 27 May 2017 9:00 am

I once asked Baroness Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, what she did to relax. Nailing me to the wall…

‘The Griffin’ by Martin Schongauer (15th-century engraving)

The map-maker’s task may never be done

Alex Burghart 26 November 2016 9:00 am

The map-maker’s task may never be done, says Alex Burghart. Seven new islands have appeared in the past decade alone

Equipped for life with a copy of Thucydides

Alex Burghart 28 May 2016 9:00 am

‘What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford,’ wrote A.A. Milne in 1939, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled…

Bad King John: more interested in hunting than good governance

The realm of England: from the Pennines to the Pyrenees

Alex Burghart 13 February 2016 9:00 am

Most people know more about the 12th century than they think they do. This is, as Richard Huscroft reminds us…

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