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…
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…