Kathryn Hughes
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
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- Aug 20, 2026
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- Jul 23, 2026
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How a maid tried to bring down Anne Boleyn...only to end up executed (opens the original)
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On April 20, 1534, Elizabeth Barton, a 28-year-old former domestic servant from Kent, had the doubtful honour of being the first woman to have her severed head stuck on a spike on London Bridge. Her crime was high treason. Recently, Elizabeth had taken to declaiming loudly in public that God was furious with Henry VIII for marrying Anne Boleyn. The Tudor world was full of crackpots, and the king would normally not have bothered with an illiterate girl who was convinced that she had a hotline to
How to learn to love your tapeworm (opens the original)
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Of all the creepy crawlies that Dino Martins describes in this thrilling book, the most gruesome has to be the eye worm. The Kenyan biologist explains how this hideous critter lives in the eye socket of horses, sheep and, yes, cats and dogs. The female lays eggs which duly hatch, whereupon the larvae swim out into the tears. Flies that are attracted to this ‘weeping of worms’ lap up the larvae, which then burrow into their host’s sexual organs before slowly making their way up to its head. When
Pretty, single, female...you're a witch! (opens the original)
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In 1650, a pretty young woman was hauled into Newcastle’s medieval main square to be examined by the Witch Pricker. Newly arrived from over the Scottish border, the Pricker’s job was to decide whether the unfortunate girl really was, as her neighbours claimed, a witch. His ‘examination’ involved poking her upper thigh with a sharp bodkin: if she winced from pain and bled from the scratch then she was innocent. Inevitably, a crowd had gathered to see the Witch Pricker fling the woman’s skirt over
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