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The power of pilgrimage | Katherine Harvey engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-po…

The medieval origins of the Pope lying-in-state | Katherine Harvey engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-m…

My review of ‘No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality’, from today’s @TheTimesBooks thetimes.com/culture/books/…

My review of a new book about medieval ladies-in-waiting, from this week’s The TLS the-tls.co.uk/history/mediev…

'Catherine of Aragon’s future in-laws demanded that her ladies be beautiful.' Katherine Harvey (Katherine Harvey) on the rewards and risks of being the queen’s attendant the-tls.co.uk/history/mediev…

In her essay “Troubled Waters”, Katherine Harvey examines the complex practices of medieval uroscopy — how physicians could divine sexual history, disease, and impending death by studying the body's liquid excretions — publicdomainreview.org/essay/troubled…

NEW ESSAY — Katherine Harvey investigates the story of Old Tom Parr (died 1635), who claimed to have lived to 152, and the fraudulent longevity business that became his namesake in the 19th century: publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-old-…

The idea of privacy is a surprisingly modern notion, but one worth defending. A little history of privacy | Katherine Harvey engelsbergideas.com/reviews/a-litt…

England’s time of troubles | Katherine Harvey engelsbergideas.com/reviews/englan…

Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski’s An Accidental History of Tudor England is a revealing and fascinating account of how our ancestors died ⬇️ thetimes.com/culture/books/…

From Tom Holland to Katja Hoyer and Sergey Radchenko, contributors to Engelsberg Ideas share the books they’ve enjoyed in the summers of their lives. engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-summe…

In The Confessions of Samuel Pepys, Guy de la Bédoyère focuses on the diarist’s relationship with women. A damning picture emerges thetimes.com/culture/books/…

The reviews of ‘Silence of the Gods’ are coming thick and fast now - here’s Katherine Harvey in this week’s Church Times churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

Me on a new book about Samuel Pepys👇

The myth of the solitary genius | Katherine Harvey engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-my…

Katherine Harvey reads a reflection on places and forms of sanctuary churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

Catherine Clarke uses an eclectic mix of verse — satirical, scabrous, tragic, lyrical — to tell the English national story thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Across the medieval world, the Moon induced feelings of fear and fascination. Mystery in the Moon | Katherine Harvey engelsbergideas.com/reviews/myster…

"For women, as for men, the best way to avoid death by celibacy was to get married and have regular, Church-sanctioned intercourse with one’s spouse." —Katherine Harvey for Aeon Magazine #longreads aeon.co/essays/getting…