Harriet Strahl, a Ph.D. student in the Durham University history department, has shed new light on the emotional and societal repercussions of the 1120 White Ship disaster in an article published in ...

On that date, the monks of Mount Melleray Abbey (Waterford ... discipline and uniformity to European and Irish monasticism. Medieval Cistercians were distinguished by their extraordinary ...

The charity’s mounting financial pressures could lead to job cuts and site closures, sparking concern over the erasure of ...

After a week of illness, heading out into the Sunday afternoon cold and rain was not something I was overjoyed to undertake. But in the event this short Wigmore Hall recital by three young singers and ...

The negative view of King John can be traced back to the writings of medieval monks and other religious ... some sections of it are still relevant to English law today. The Magna Carta was quoted ...

Today’s tariffs usually refer to international trade. But there’s a distinctly old-school, fire-and-brimstone flavour to ...

This historic old village is highly accessible and boasts stunning architecture, lush landscapes, and even contains the heart ...

Gloucestershire, with large swathes of its landscape covered by the Cotswolds Area of Natural Beauty (AONB), has seen wars of religion, politics, and power over the centuries. Learn of the heroic ...

In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th century, gothic music became much darker.