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Historian James Sharpe explores the changing significance of the Fifth of November...

For As Long As There Have Been Printed Books, There Has Been Marginalia April 7, 2021 “The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.” –Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Lecture * In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import.” In her Nobel Lecture, she noted how language, whether spoken or written, can limn, or describe and detail, life. Derived from the Latin illuminare, meaning to “make light” or “illuminate,” limn has been...

A COTTAGE stands near Welshpool's St Mary's Church with a remarkable tale. It was given to a servant who had helped the Powis family in their hour of need during a time of great religious upheaval in Britain in the late 17th century. The story of Winifred Maxwell and her daring plan to free her husband from the Tower of London is one which deserves to be remembered. The daughter of William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis, had lost everything when her father and his cousin, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, were falsely accused by Titus Oates in the Popish Plot of conspirin...

QAnon Is a Dangerous Echo of Conspiracies Past Share Filed to:911 conspiracy theories WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump fly a U.S. flag with a symbol from the group QAnon as they gather outside the U.S. Capitol January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Win McNamee, Getty Images) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. As the tragic events of Janua...

Guarding the apocalypse: inside the fortress of the new Lambeth Palace Library Oliver Wainwright © Provided by The Guardian One of the Library’s treasures, now in a suitably armoured home. Photograph: Sarah Lee/the Guardian A dangerous-looking porcupine scuttles across the bottom of a page of a medieval manuscript, amid scenes of fire-breathing dragons, bodies bubbling in cauldrons, and boats deluged by biblical floods. Known as the Lambeth Apocalypse , this 13th-century illuminated text is one of the lurid highlights of the magnificent collection of Lambeth Palace Librar...