He delves into the presumed work life of early man, into slave society and medieval guilds.

ECONOMIST: What has work become?

It was the plight of the rare medieval castle of Tattershall in Lincolnshire that spurred one man to act.

BBC: The man who demolished Shakespeare's house

This sounds kitsch, though Michael Gray, a British photographer, has produced a surprisingly soft and lovely print of three people outside the medieval Wiltshire abbey that once was home to the man who discovered how to use negatives to produce positive prints, William Henry Fox Talbot.

ECONOMIST: The daguerreotype is back