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Guest speaker Roy Johnstone had been a solicitor for some 40 years with a great love of history

Catacanthus incarnatus, which feasts on crops including cotton and corn, has been renamed Hitler as the design on its back resembles the Nazi dictator's face

MIKE Watson travelled to Sweden with American singer Larry Finnegan in 1964. He never left – and the move turned out to be one of the best…

A n emblematic example of feminine-oriented watchmaking, the Reine de Naples collection draws inspiration from the first-ever Brequet wristwatch, delivered in 1812 to Napoleon’s sister, Queen Caroline. Whether gem set, engraved or lacquered, each model is thus an ode to femininity.

A petition to have the relic returned has garnered over 100,000 signatures

Charles Way’s farce has squabbling siblings, festive karaoke and a cranky rodent as a family tries to keep their pet shop afloat

Although it isn’t mentioned anywhere on the cover of Russ Radcliffe’s latest offering, 2022 is the 20th anniversary of Best Australian Political Cartoons. That’s right – for anyone who has been collecting the books since they began in 2003, a whole shelf of plain blue, red, purple, green and gold…

Each cap is said to last around 80 years and cost £1,710

As a new show at the British Museum celebrates the monumental discovery that blew a 3,000-year-old mystery apart, our writer finds magic and malice on a code-cracking ride into antiquity