Recent years have seen considerable research into the archaeological evidence from the era of the Black Death as well as into the evidence t...

Last week I and a regular reader both noticed online a report about the Rutland, or, as it is now designated, the Ketton, mosaic from a subs...

From the Office of Lauds in the Traditional Breviary for today - the fourth and fifth readings: From the Sermons of St. Jerome, ob. 420, Pri...

In my previous post, I wrote about the impending auction of the painting by Hans Eworth of Thomas, fourth Duke of Norfolk. I expressed the h...

The BBC News website reported the other day in the forthcoming auction - this evening in fact - of the 1563 portrait of Thomas fourth Duke o...

Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the opening of the church of St Aloysius in Oxford. On that day in 1875 Bishop William Bernard Ullath...

A fortnight ago there was the really amazing announcement by the Imperial House of Austria that, contrary to widespread belief, one of the H...

I came upon an online report about work to conserve and enhance a remarkable historic monument in Marlboroughin Wiltshire. The Mound, as it ...