A glimpse of St Thomas Becket’s elusive intellectual world
September 23, 2020
The Book in the Cathedral By Christopher de Hamel Penguin, £9.99 The year 2020 marks the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St Thomas...
Francis Young
Eating goose and avoiding the woods: September’s ancient customs
September 4, 2020
Until it ceased to be a communal event with the advent of mechanised agriculture in the 20th century, harvest was central to the month...
Until the 19th century, July was a month of local fairs
July 10, 2020
July’s weather made it a popular time for fairs until the late 19th century, when the home secretary suppressed most traditional local fairs on...
The last lockdown: 13th-century England’s six years without Mass
April 9, 2020
Easter 2020 will be the first Easter in the history of the Church when Catholics in most parts of the world will not be...
How plague shaped a great historian
March 26, 2020
One of the most remarkable survivals in St Paul’s Church in Jarrow – itself a remarkable survivor of Anglo-Saxon architecture – is a dedication...
St Eanswythe helps dispel the anti-Catholic myth of relic fraud
March 12, 2020
Before this week even people with an active interest in Anglo-Saxon Christianity may never have heard of St Eanswythe, the patron saint of Folkestone. But since...
A glimpse of St Thomas Becket’s elusive intellectual world
September 23, 2020
The Book in the Cathedral By Christopher de Hamel Penguin, £9.99 The year 2020 marks the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St Thomas...
Eating goose and avoiding the woods: September’s ancient customs
September 4, 2020
Until it ceased to be a communal event with the advent of mechanised agriculture in the 20th century, harvest was central to the month...
Until the 19th century, July was a month of local fairs
July 10, 2020
July’s weather made it a popular time for fairs until the late 19th century, when the home secretary suppressed most traditional local fairs on...
The last lockdown: 13th-century England’s six years without Mass
April 9, 2020
Easter 2020 will be the first Easter in the history of the Church when Catholics in most parts of the world will not be...
How plague shaped a great historian
March 26, 2020
One of the most remarkable survivals in St Paul’s Church in Jarrow – itself a remarkable survivor of Anglo-Saxon architecture – is a dedication...
St Eanswythe helps dispel the anti-Catholic myth of relic fraud
March 12, 2020
Before this week even people with an active interest in Anglo-Saxon Christianity may never have heard of St Eanswythe, the patron saint of Folkestone. But since...
