Dr Michael Ramsey was on a visit to St Paul’s Church in Jarrow in 1973. He gave a speech which was relayed by loudspeaker to ...

Historical accounts indicate that Crowland was home to a hermitage belonging to Saint Guthlac—a monk who established himself ...

February 2 marks the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. St Bede wrote of Christ as the Temple itself A sublime if slightly rubbed illumination stands at the start of the Gospels in the Codex ...

Constantine mac Áed (Constantine II), the grandson of Kenneth MacAlpin, began his life as an exile. In 878 AD his father, Áed, had been slain by a Giric, son of Dungal, and Constantine, a young boy at ...

It took a monk about a year to hand copy the entire ... King Alfred the Great and Archbishop Aelfric worked on Anglo-Saxon (Old English) translations. After the Norman conquest of 1066, a need ...

But Oswald was no monk, rather he was a warrior who killed his great Welsh ... to Iona for missionaries – and paganism was stamped out. That is probably why no Anglo-Saxon pagan remains have ever been ...

Whenever Britain faced conflict - from early invasions by the Celts and Romans to WWII when skies were criss-crossed with ...