italy – Manchester Historian

Ned Rodger writes a potted history of the March on Rome and the events that led to Mussolini in power.

The British Museum’s Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition opened to considerable fanfare at the end of March. A number of prime-time TV documentaries heralded its coming and the Mayor of London, no doubt enchanted with the subject he studied at university, waxed lyrical at the press opening. Neil MacGregor, Pontifex Maximus of the cultural establishment, had Continue Reading

A look at the Medieval dining experience and fashion of the so-called Dark Ages.