Charles Trevelyan of Wallington in Northumberland was a highly successful British Civil Servant. In Ireland he is however remembered as the man responsible for the relief of the ‘Great Hunger’ during which a million people died and even more fled abroad. Mike Fraser will assess...

Monuments like Hadrian’s Wall circulate in the cultural imaginary in complex and challenging ways.  The earliest piece of writing we have about the Wall is from the sixth century; it has since figured in art and literature since then, with a particular swell across the long twentieth century, with numerous...