Sophie Thérèse Ambler
Sophie Thérèse Ambler is Reader in Medieval History at Lancaster University. Follow her at @RG1253
A game of thrones
Shelley Puhak’s woman-versus-woman rivalry between queens is only part of the story
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)