The Shetland island of Foula has continued to follow the Julian calendar, going back to the Romans, long after the rest of the country gave ...

I do not watch Netflix- it looks to be a very dubious outfit - though I hope to make an exception for their recent production of "The K...

Today’s Mail Online has an article based on the new version or edition of Hugo Vickers’ biography of Gladys ( pronounced Glaydus by her husb...

By chance last night I came across this post and its attendant links on Pinterest and I think they are worth sharing with others. In one sen...

The question and answer site Quora has this piece which makes rather interesting reading, so I have copied and pasted it, with occasional mi...

The Daily Telegraph website has a feature about an exhibition of Jacobite relics and memorabilia that is on show in Edinburgh. The disp...

At lunchtime today I attended a Diaconal Ordination of three Dominican friars and two Franciscan  Conventuals at Blackfriars here in Oxfor...

Today is the 195th anniversary of the coronation of the first Emperor of Mexico, Agustín I, in 1822. There is an illustrated onlin...