Permission is being sought to exhume Thomas More’s head from a Kent vault, 500 years after it was put on a pike on London Bridge.

Henry VIII’s close adviser was resolute in upholding secular and spiritual authorities over individual judgment. When it came ...

During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to ...

Martha’s Vineyard is a place of otherworldly beauty, with grassy dunes and craggy clay cliffs that inspire rhapsodic American ...

Thomas More is a biography of the man known to posterity as both St Thomas More and Sir Thomas More, an enigmatic figure variously worshipped as a saintly martyr and vilified as a dogmatic zealot.

One of the first major carnivals of blurbery came in 1516, when, ahead of the publication of his satire Utopia, Thomas More wrote to his friend Erasmus, urging him to make sure the book “be handsomely ...

More than 500 years ago, Sir Thomas More wrote a book entitled Utopia in which he laid out his vision of societal perfection.

In 1516, the year he published Utopia, More wrote to the philosopher Desiderius Erasmus requesting that the book “be handsomely set off with the highest of recommendations, if possible, from ...