Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his role in starting and spreading rumours of a 'Popish Plot' against Charles II. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates (1649-1705) who, ...

Far from London, where the Popish Plot was still in the full fury of investigation, accusation, trials, and execution, two Catholic priests, John Wall and John Kemble, suffered and died in Wales.

The convulsions of 17th-century England are familiar: a civil war, a regicide and, eventually, a restoration of the monarchy. Not long after came another episode of agitation and unrest, less familiar ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Conspiracy theories are a feature of our times as of centuries past. The CIA was behind President John F ...

For five impossibly happy years, I lived in Wiltshire in a converted Catholic chapel that Italian masons built in 1695 to house temporarily the relics of two early Christian martyrs, the curiously ...

This is the remarkable and harrowing story of one of the worst people in the world. Admittedly, there’s a long list of people who’ve chosen the Void rather than the Light, but Titus Oates stands out ...