Ronald Hutton News Today

In honor of Walpurgisnacht, as the evening of April 30 is known, the hamlets of Saxony-Anhalt do a brisk spring-time tourist trade selling...

The Christians who argue “Pagan religions aren’t authentic because they have no continuity with the ancients” usually skip the other part: “you have no continuity because we destroyed it.” And also, they’re wrong.

Half term, Pancake Day, Valentine's... busy week all round.

Naked cycling, the Mean Girls musical, and the Lambeth Country Show.

Ronald Hutton answers listener questions surrounding the mystical spiritual figures of ancient north western Europe

A closer look at the greenery responsible for sleazy dudes scoring winter kisses and 18th-century wives getting to smooch someone other than their husbands.

What is the summer solstice? What does that mean for us? And why does the word 'solstice' make you think of Christmas?

How do you approach the role of historical advisor on a TV series set in Arthurian Britain, when evidence of what happened is somewhere between scarce and non-existent? Professor Ronald Hutton tells us about his work on the new ITVX Arthurian drama The Winter King – and about life and death in fifth-century England

Of all the books we return to at this time of year, few are as enchanting as this graphic novelty

Festivals of wild disorder symbolically assert human solidarity. Mike Macnair explores the history, ancient and modern, of a constantly reproduced Golden Age