As we emerge from what was hopefully the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, heading back to work, restaurants and public events, one thing is certain: Our homes will never be the same. Weeks and months spent cooped up had many opting to buy bigger houses, install backyard patios and remodel […]

HISTORY THE MERCENARY RIVER   by Nick Higham (Headline £20, 480pp) In November 1478, a Londoner named William Campion was paraded around the city wearing a vessel on his head which was ‘kept filled with water’.  This ‘ran down his person from small holes made for the purpose’. He was then […]