Our news reports quiver with the horrors apparently perpetrated in the Middle East by Islamic State (IS). If even a quarter of these reports are true – the murders, rapes, kidnappings, episodes of genocide, vandalism of world heritage sites, terrible…

Lincoln is a small but interesting and attractive city, full of historical and archaeological interes. Numerous prehistoric remains have been excavated in the area; it was a Roman town; it was rebuilt by Danish settlers in the 10th and 11th…