Yesterday the Daily Telegraph  had a timely article about the threat posed to the Lincolnshire countryside by the plans for a line of pylons...

The British Library  Medieval manuscripts blog  has a feature about Harleian MS 612 from the great Bridgettine house of Syon Abbey founded b...

So another US Presidential election has come and almost gone, and we know who will be the occupant of the White House for the forthcoming fo...

595 years ago today, King Henry VI was  crowned at Westminster. Two years later he was to be crowned as King of France in Notre Dame in Pari...

  490 years ago on November 3rd 1534 the legal measure to create the Royal Supremacy in England completed its Parliamentary stages and on De...

The house in which I was brought up faced north across the open grassland of what survives of the medieval hunting park created by about 118...

Trying to find a suitable artwork to share for All Saints was not easy. Durer’s Asoration of the Trinity  certainly includes a lot of saints...

Today is Halloween and, whilst from my view point, the modern commercialised things surrounding the day should be ignored, there has been th...