Gilles de Rais was innocent

O who rides by night thro' the woodland so wild? It is the fond father embracing his child; And close the boy nestles within his loved a...

  Standing at the stake, Gilles de Rais asks forgiveness for his crimes from the crowd of onlookers. Illustration by Alfred Paris, taken fro...

YouTube has looked favourably on Artificial Intelligence for some years, but it is only quite recently that it has impinged on my little cor...

This is an old picture of David Allenby, my partner of forty-something years, who died today. He was a man of many names - William Braquemar...

When I began this blog, I really had no idea what to post, so often I just put up links to interesting sites. That was over a decade ago; we...

  That there was a book so lurid that reading it tempted Gilles de Rais into crime While sorting out the Gilles de Rais myths that need bust...

 The most recent blog post is the first in what may well be a near-endless "Mythbusting" series, which will eventually have its ow...