275 years ago in 1745 the Jacobite army Council of War at Derby voted to return north to Scotland. This was, of course, against the policy a...

Having finished my previous post, and, I suspect, with my recent piece  Lace in a Penitential Season   still partly fresh in my mind I recal...

The Liturgical Arts Journal  website often features historic vestments and in a recent post Shawn Tribe has a really splendid set of vestmen...

Today is the Feast of St Barbara.  As a saint accorded liturgical honours she was a casualty of the 1969 revision of the Roman Calendar, alt...

My previous post was about fish and fishing and by coincidence I came across a collection of posts about medieval cookery from Medieval Hist...

Fishing, the fishing industry, and the regulation and management thereof is in the news as a remaining unresolved topic in the Brexit negoti...

I came across this on the Literary Hub  website and thought it worth sharing with readers. It is an extract from Seb Falk’s The Light Ages: ...

Today is the Feast of St Andrew the Apostle. There is a useful introduction to the scriptural material about him, the early legends and the ...