EditorialBas-de-page scene of an abbess accused by her nuns of inchastity who implored the help of the Virgin Mary, so the Virgin relieved her of her infant and sent it by an angel to a hermit to be nurtured. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of an angel, sent by the Virgin, delivering an infant to a hermit to be nurtured; a decorated initial 'C'(antate). Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal ...
EditorialOrders for the Governor and Council of St Helena. In 1708, Captain John Roberts was appointed by the East India Company to replace the recently deceased Captain Stephen Poirier as Governor of St Helena, a remote but commercially significant island in t...
EditorialMagna Carta is frequently mentioned in children’s history books where traditionally it has been taught as one of the foundations of British liberty. Such books include Our Island Story, first published in 1905, in which ‘the Story of the Great Char...
EditorialMagna Carta is frequently mentioned in children’s history books where traditionally it has been taught as one of the foundations of British liberty. Such books include Our Island Story, first published in 1905, in which ‘the Story of the Great Char...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of an abbess accused by her nuns of inchastity who implored the help of the Virgin Mary, so the Virgin relieved her of her infant and sent it by an angel to a hermit to be nurtured. Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of an angel, sent by the Virgin, delivering an infant to a hermit to be nurtured; a decorated initial 'C'(antate). Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal ...