Caerleon: The location is steeped in history and archaeology with its impressive Roman ruins, and its later associations – it’s the site where Geoffrey of Monmouth’s twelfth-century chronicle of British monarchs, Historia regum Britanniae, places the court of King Arthur, and where, some 350 years on, Thomas Malory staged the legendary figure’s coronation in Le Morte D’Arthur.
Kim McGreal explores the curious and macabre origins of some well-known childhood nursery rhymes.
Vortigern was legendary 5th century King of the Britons featured in the work of early British writers such as Gildas, Nennius, Bede, Geoffrey of Monmouth and others.
Madeline D’Este explores the possible origins behind the common belief that the act of opening an umbrella indoors invites bad luck.
We all know that Halloween, as a festival, is not an invention of the trick-or-treating Americans but it is far older than many people realise.
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