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The 2011 Correspondents' Dinner is thought to be the significant moment that spurred the reality TV star and real estate mogul Donald Trump to run for Presidency. That evening, Trump was the target of both President

Mother Teresa is to attain the highest honour bestowed on any within the Catholic Church – on the 4th of September this year, she will be made a saint. But her 'fast-tracked' canonisation is seen by

Thomas More’s Utopia, first published in Latin in 1516, is one of the world’s most famous books. It has given us the adjective ‘Utopian’, a mode of thought (‘Utopianism’), a literary genre. Yet, at some

Following the stunning victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership contest this September, much maligned and supposedly outdated terms such as socialism and collective ownership have started to re-enter British political discourse. As of

There are not many people who appear in the indexes of all three of these books, on quite different topics: A Handbook of Medieval Sexuality; Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900; and The

Today is the anniversary of the death of Queen Waldrada. Now, let me be the first to admit that hers is hardly a household name. At the time of writing, she does not even have