Medieval
‘Don’t’ forget the poor’ whispered the Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes to the Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as he was elected as the first Latin American pope three months ago. Remembering the poor, the new
The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul in Sheffield is undergoing a massive restoration as part of the 2014 Gateway Project. When the floor near the Shrewsbury Chapel was lifted to install new
Assuming that England needs a patron saint, should St George be replaced by St Edmund? Another campaign is apparently now being orchestrated for the latter by Suffolk partisans. Edmund is said to have two advantages
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last few months, you’ll know that next year is the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. And if you don’t, well, you will soon.
Catherine Fletcher recently posted a comment on this blog on how book covers sell history. As she pointed out, what you should usually judge by its cover isn't the book, it's the publisher’s marketing team.
It’s a bumper week for fans of the Dantesque. Dan Brown’s new book enters the world of the Inferno and, for those who like their evil televisual, the new Hannibal is playing on Sky. The