In a culture of health-consciousness and paying heavily into skin care, it is often pressed upon on us to be wary of spending too much time in the sun on a hot day. What’s more dangerous, though, is becoming deterred from venturing outside at all.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) recently commissioned research to quantify the impact of arts and heritage on physical and mental wellbeing, as well as the monetary value of these benefits. The research, which analysed data collected from 13 groups of people, was undertaken by Frontier Economics and University College London-based World Health Organization Collaborating […]

Trick or treating is also believed to originate from early medieval pageantry too. Back then, the practice, called ‘going a souling’ involved the poorest members of society going door to door and receiving food such as pastries or specially baked ‘soul cakes’ in return for their promise to pray for the household’s dead relatives.