David Crane

The Koh-i-Noor (Mountain of Light) is set in the front cross of the Queen Consort’s crown

Blood and bling

24 June 2017 9:00 am

There must be any number of self-respecting gemmologists out there on first-name terms with other diamonds, but for most of…

‘The Death of Lord Robert Manners’ by Thomas Stothard

Too young to die

14 April 2017 11:00 pm

In the north transept of Westminster Abbey, there is a memorial by Joseph Nollekens to three British captains killed at…

England’s unloved king

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Aethelred the Unready (c.968—1016) has not, as Levi Roach acknowledges, enjoyed a good press. In recent times there may have…

The man who changed the world

11 June 2016 8:00 am

On 31 October 1517, as every child once knew, an obscure German monk nailed his 95 theses to the door…