The Queen was after all, still dead
Is it over? Can I go to Centre Parcs now? Can I ride my bike? I may have had my operation cancelled or needed emergency access to the food bank but thank goodness I could feel proud to be British.
Is it over? Can I go to Centre Parcs now? Can I ride my bike? I may have had my operation cancelled or needed emergency access to the food bank but thank goodness I could feel proud to be British.
In the old streets of Naples, there’s a small church of bones, mystery and cult worship – an offshoot of the Neapolitan Cult of the Dead.
Dreams, gods, ghost guards, emperors, a lovestruck moon – tea has a rich and often macabre heritage of superstition and stories.
Skulls are fascinating and repelling, dead yet alive with those large eye sockets filled with shadow and that endless rictus grin. The skull has different talismanic meanings across all cultures, and the power to make a serious statement. Here are five curious and often macabre uses of a human skull.
Victorian London was a charnel house of the dead; a city oozing horror and nowhere more so than a small chapel where they danced on the dead.
Dickens is the master of London writing but a grisly and compelling scene in Little Dorrit was inspired by his travels in the Swiss Alps.